Savon HTTPS Request with HTTP authentication

I have written an integration with a SOAP API using savon. I am running into issue which seems to be only with certain OSs. The reason I say that is because the same code works on CentOS6 and MacOSX but it refuses to work with Ubuntu12.04. The code I'm using is:

@client = Savon.client do
  wsdl "mywsdl"
  basic_auth ["username", "password"]
end

@client.call(:set_session_parameters, message: {viewSettings: {rollingPeriod: "Today", shiftStart: "25200000", statisticsRange: "CurrentDay",timeZone: -21600000}})

The error I get back is:

[2013-06-03T18:22:31.784007 #16304] DEBUG -- : HTTPI POST request to api.five9.com (httpclient)
I, [2013-06-03T18:22:42.413083 #16304]  INFO -- : SOAP response (status 401)
D, [2013-06-03T18:22:42.413378 #16304] DEBUG -- : <html><head><title>JBoss Web/2.1.3.GA - Error report</title><style><!--H1 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:22px;} H2 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:16px;} H3 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:14px;} BODY {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white;} B {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;} P {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;background:white;color:black;font-size:12px;}A {color : black;}A.name {color : black;}HR {color : #525D76;}--></style> </head><body><h1>HTTP Status 401 - No user credentials found</h1><HR size="1" noshade="noshade"><p><b>type</b> Status report</p><p><b>message</b> <u>No user credentials found</u></p><p><b>description</b> <u>This request requires HTTP authentication (No user credentials found).</u></p><HR size="1" noshade="noshade"><h3>JBoss Web/2.1.3.GA</h3></body></html>
Savon::HTTPError: HTTP error (401): <html><head><title>JBoss Web/2.1.3.GA - Error report</title><style><!--H1 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:22px;} H2 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:16px;} H3 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:14px;} BODY {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white;} B {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;} P {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;background:white;color:black;font-size:12px;}A {color : black;}A.name {color : black;}HR {color : #525D76;}--></style> </head><body><h1>HTTP Status 401 - No user credentials found</h1><HR size="1" noshade="noshade"><p><b>type</b> Status report</p><p><b>message</b> <u>No user credentials found</u></p><p><b>description</b> <u>This request requires HTTP authentication (No user credentials found).</u></p><HR size="1" noshade="noshade"><h3>JBoss Web/2.1.3.GA</h3></body></html>
    from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/savon-2.2.0/lib/savon/response.rb:71:in `raise_soap_and_http_errors!'
    from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/savon-2.2.0/lib/savon/response.rb:13:in `initialize'
    from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/savon-2.2.0/lib/savon/operation.rb:53:in `new'
    from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/savon-2.2.0/lib/savon/operation.rb:53:in `call'
    from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/savon-2.2.0/lib/savon/client.rb:36:in `call'

Like I said on other OSs the code works fine. Is there something that I need to install to make this work on Ubuntu12.04?

It is definitely not a username and password error seeing as an exact replica works on another OS.

Any help with this issue would be appreciated. Thanks!

Solution

The issue was with the HTTP client that HTTPI was using. For some reason HTTPCLIENT isn't working for what I need. So I just gem uninstall httpclient.

After that HTTPI automatically picks up net_http which works like a champ!