Chef recipe snippet that adds a cookie to the cookie jar. This allows remote_file to use Basic Auth URL's

chef_cookie_jar

url = 'http://foo.com/file.txt'

ruby_block "Set cookie" do
  block do    
    uri = URI(url)
    cookie_string = %x( curl -L '#{url}' -u user:pass -I | grep Set-Cookie | awk ' { gsub(/;/, ""); print $2 }' )
    Chef::REST::CookieJar.instance["#{uri.host}:#{uri.port}"] = cookie_string
  end
end