I should of googled authentication instead of htaccess. Sorry for the
noise. Here is the solution
Basic Authentication
require 'net/http'
Net::HTTP.start('www.example.com') {|http|
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new('/secret-page.html')
req.basic_auth 'account', 'password'
response = http.request(req)
print response.body
}
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