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Obviously big fans of open-uri around here. And development of open-uri has continued with the addition of HTTP Basic authentication, newly implemented in both HEAD and ruby_1_8 branches of CVS.

  open("http://...", :http_basic_authentication=>[user, password])

I should note that this was implemented at the behest of Kent Sibilev. So, hey, does anyone else have open-uri wishes? (And please don’t say HTTPS. Tanaka-san has a preliminary patch here and, believe me, that dog is running.)