On Feb 22, 2008, at 7:28 PM, Albert Ng wrote: > looking at the blog.rb example, I see a very nice example of > authentication, but the username/password is transmitted in clear > text form > > My question then is, Is there an easy way of "encrypting" that > information?
Well, the easiest way is to do logins over SSL. A second option could be HTTP Digest Authentication, but browser support for that is flackey to say the least. You can try digest auth, it's in Apache and probably in other webservers. > If not, will I have to go the https way with apache, or is there a > ruby http server that can do that? WEBRick can do SSL, see http://www.webrick.org/ Manfred _______________________________________________ Camping-list mailing list Camping-list@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list
