Thanks a bunch, that helps a lot.

As an aside, there's no mention of this mailing list on the camping wiki

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Manfred Stienstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> 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
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