[Locomotive-users] HTTP_AUTHORIZATION

[Ryan Raaum]

On 1/10/07, Chris Abad <chris at integralimpressions.com> wrote:
>
> I've seen way in which you can configure Apache to take that part of the
> URL and include it in the HTTP_AUTHORIZATION header, so I'm pretty sure this
> needs to be done at the web server level. I'm just not sure what that is in
> Locomotive (direct to Mongrel? Lighttpd?), where to change the config
> settings, and what to set them up to (this last one I can probably look up
> myself if I get answers to the first two).
>

Ok... have you seen/tried this? (I've not, but is seems like it may be
useful to you...)

http://blog.codahale.com/2006/05/11/basic-http-authentication-with-rails-simple_http_auth

-r


On Jan 10, 2007, at 1:47 PM, Ryan Raaum wrote:
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>
>
> On 1/9/07, Chris Abad <chris at integralimpressions.com> wrote:
> >
> >  I've tried hitting the URL I mentioned earlier and printing out the
> > request.env information into the logs. The user/pass don't show up at
> > all.
> >
>
> Hrm. I'm afraid I'm not of much use here...  Anyone?
>
> -r
>
> On Jan 9, 2007, at 8:07 AM, Ryan Raaum wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 1/8/07, Chris Abad < chris at integralimpressions.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Question, using Locomotive's setup (I'm assuming just a straight
> > > connection to a single mongrel instance), is it possible to set the
> > > HTTP_AUTHORIZATION header from a URL like this:
> > >
> > > http://admin:admin@localhost:3000/
> > >
> > > I'm not really sure where to look for this answer partly b/c I'm not
> > > sure which program is responsible for setting this information w/
> > > Locomotive's setup. Is it Mongrel?
> >
> >
> > What happens if you try?  Have you checked what makes it into the
> > headers in the controller?
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > -r
> >
> > Thanks for the help.
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