# Authenticate against external rest api

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/authenticate-against-external-rest-api/129000>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 13, 2008, 12:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/authenticate-against-external-rest-api/129000 "2008-02-13T12:33:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![remcoh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/c37758/32.png) [@remcoh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/remcoh)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 12:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/authenticate-against-external-rest-api/129000/1 "2008-02-13T12:33:26Z")

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Hello, i am new with webservices, so i think this is prety basic

i want to use the REST interface of our zimbra collaboration server  
within my rails applications.

I could create calendar appointments using curl -u username@password  
…

So the question is: how can i authenticate and post a file to zimbra  
from rails?

Thanks, Remco

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**Author:** ![remcoh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/c37758/32.png) [@remcoh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/remcoh)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 9:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/authenticate-against-external-rest-api/129000/2 "2008-02-14T09:40:58Z")

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I found out that rails can’t consume a REST webservices out of the box,  
it can only be a server. too bad, i will figure something out with  
external libraries

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**Author:** ![remcoh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/c37758/32.png) [@remcoh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/remcoh)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 11:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/authenticate-against-external-rest-api/129000/3 "2008-02-15T11:34:51Z")

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i found out wrong,  
thanks for pointing me at active\_resource 😉