[ruby-oci8-devel] Ruby OCI8 proxy authentication

[Liming Lian]

Hi Ted,

Sounds like good feature. Better to hear Kubo's opinion on this, and 
could you please file a new ticket on the project tracker for feature 
request here:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=1054&group_id=256&func=browse

Thanks,
Liming

> Hello,
>
> I would like to be able to use Oracle's "proxy authentication" feature
> from Ruby.  My Web research and review of the ruby-oci8 source code
> indicate that this feature is unimplemented in ruby-oci8 and there are
> no plans to add it.  I'd love to know if this is definitely the case.
> If proxy authentication is indeed unimplemented, I think adding this
> feature would be a strong enabler for getting ruby-oci8 to be more
> widely used in complex enterprise environments.
>
> Kubo or Liming, it would be great if you were to please comment on
> whether this is something you would be interested in adding to
> ruby-oci8.
>
> For your information, here are some good explanations of proxy
> authentication:
>
> http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/A97630_01/appdev.920/a96590/adgsec
> 03.htm
> http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/2006/12/18/proxy-users/
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ted Behling
> ISP Systems Analyst, Hargray Communications
> ted.behling at htc.hargray.com
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