This is an HTTP proxy server that will log into specific web servers for you so that you can work with a client that has troubles with basic authentication. I developed it specifically for testing a server that required basic authentication with Selenium, which has a real hard time working right with basic authentication. It should also work on a server with digest authentication, although I haven't tested it against a real server using digest authentication.
To use it, create a file called authinfo.yml with your login credentials in the config directory. An example is shown in config/authinfo.example.yml. Then run the proxy like this:
ruby lib/proxy.rb
You'll need to tell your client to use the proxy. To do that in selenium, you can use something like this:
require 'rubygems'
require 'selenium-webdriver'
profile = Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new
profile["network.proxy.type"] = 1
profile["network.proxy.http"] = "localhost"
profile["network.proxy.http_port"] = 9090
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for(:firefox, :profile => profile)
driver.navigate.to 'http://my-basic-auth-server.com'
It runs on port 9090. Changing it to use another port is left as an exercise for the reader.
Unit tests can be run by typing rake from the project root folder.