Thanks a bunch, that helps a lot.<br><br>As an aside, there's no mention of this mailing list on the camping wiki<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Manfred Stienstra <<a href="mailto:manfred@gmail.com">manfred@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Feb 22, 2008, at 7:28 PM, Albert Ng wrote:<br>
<br>
> looking at the blog.rb example, I see a very nice example of<br>
> authentication, but the username/password is transmitted in clear<br>
> text form<br>
><br>
> My question then is, Is there an easy way of "encrypting" that<br>
> information?<br>
<br>
</div>Well, the easiest way is to do logins over SSL. A second option could<br>
be HTTP Digest Authentication, but browser support for that is flackey<br>
to say the least. You can try digest auth, it's in Apache and probably<br>
in other webservers.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> If not, will I have to go the https way with apache, or is there a<br>
> ruby http server that can do that?<br>
<br>
</div>WEBRick can do SSL, see <a href="http://www.webrick.org/" target="_blank">http://www.webrick.org/</a><br>
<br>
Manfred<br>
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