Module ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Token
In: lib/action_controller/metal/http_authentication.rb

Makes it dead easy to do HTTP Token authentication.

Simple Token example:

  class PostsController < ApplicationController
    TOKEN = "secret"

    before_filter :authenticate, :except => [ :index ]

    def index
      render :text => "Everyone can see me!"
    end

    def edit
      render :text => "I'm only accessible if you know the password"
    end

    private
      def authenticate
        authenticate_or_request_with_http_token do |token, options|
          token == TOKEN
        end
      end
  end

Here is a more advanced Token example where only Atom feeds and the XML API is protected by HTTP token authentication, the regular HTML interface is protected by a session approach:

  class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
    before_filter :set_account, :authenticate

    protected
      def set_account
        @account = Account.find_by_url_name(request.subdomains.first)
      end

      def authenticate
        case request.format
        when Mime::XML, Mime::ATOM
          if user = authenticate_with_http_token { |t, o| @account.users.authenticate(t, o) }
            @current_user = user
          else
            request_http_token_authentication
          end
        else
          if session_authenticated?
            @current_user = @account.users.find(session[:authenticated][:user_id])
          else
            redirect_to(login_url) and return false
          end
        end
      end
  end

In your integration tests, you can do something like this:

  def test_access_granted_from_xml
    get(
      "/notes/1.xml", nil,
      :authorization => ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Token.encode_credentials(users(:dhh).token)
    )

    assert_equal 200, status
  end

On shared hosts, Apache sometimes doesn‘t pass authentication headers to FCGI instances. If your environment matches this description and you cannot authenticate, try this rule in your Apache setup:

  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [E=X-HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},QSA,L]

Methods

Classes and Modules

Module ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Token::ControllerMethods

Public Instance methods

If token Authorization header is present, call the login procedure with the present token and options.

controller - ActionController::Base instance for the current request. login_procedure - Proc to call if a token is present. The Proc should

                  take 2 arguments:
                    authenticate(controller) { |token, options| ... }

Returns the return value of `&login_procedure` if a token is found. Returns nil if no token is found.

Sets a WWW-Authenticate to let the client know a token is desired.

controller - ActionController::Base instance for the outgoing response. realm - String realm to use in the header.

Returns nothing.

Encodes the given token and options into an Authorization header value.

token - String token. options - optional Hash of the options.

Returns String.

Parses the token and options out of the token authorization header. If the header looks like this:

  Authorization: Token token="abc", nonce="def"

Then the returned token is "abc", and the options is {:nonce => "def"}

request - ActionController::Request instance with the current headers.

Returns an Array of [String, Hash] if a token is present. Returns nil if no token is found.

[Validate]