Curling REST controllers behind restful_authentication

Rails
1

Hello,

I am trying to access a REST controller from a Native C# Windows Mobile
client and I am having some problems since I am using the
restful_authentication plug in.

I decided to test the availability of the resources with curl before
trying with windows mobile.

I want to access this resource

http://friendforcaster.com/users/1/people.xml

When I try to I get the obvious

HTTP Basic: Access denied.

So I though I would try

curl -X GET --basic -u user_name:password
http://friendforcaster.com/users/1/people.xml

But had the same problem…

I was thinking that maybe I have to somehow remotely add a cookie or
create a session but I don’t know how to do this.

Can someone help?

Thank you very much,

Kent

2

Got it!

It was a problem with Apache!

Thank you

Kent

Kent F. wrote:

Hello,

I am trying to access a REST controller from a Native C# Windows Mobile
client and I am having some problems since I am using the
restful_authentication plug in.

I decided to test the availability of the resources with curl before
trying with windows mobile.

I want to access this resource

http://friendforcaster.com/users/1/people.xml

When I try to I get the obvious

HTTP Basic: Access denied.

So I though I would try

curl -X GET --basic -u user_name:password
http://friendforcaster.com/users/1/people.xml

But had the same problem…

I was thinking that maybe I have to somehow remotely add a cookie or
create a session but I don’t know how to do this.

Can someone help?

Thank you very much,

Kent

3

On Jul 11, 1:36 pm, Kent F. [email protected]
wrote:

Got it!

It was a problem with Apache!

Thank you

Kent

Can you elaborate? I had seen this before in one of my projects and
I’m curious to know how you solved it.

Jeff

4

Hi Jeff,

I tried it out on my local copy and it worked really well.

I still can’t access it remotely but that has something to do with the
host I am using.

I am using hostingrails and I have opened up a ticket with them.
Chances are it has something to do with the FCI or Apache config files.

On my dev machine I switched from Apache to nginx and everything worked
very well. Unless you are using passenger I would suggest not using
Apache, but that’s just my opinion.

Hope this helps, if my host gives me any information I will be happy to
post it.

Thanks Jeff,

Kent

Jeff C. wrote:

On Jul 11, 1:36�pm, Kent F. [email protected]
wrote:

Got it!

It was a problem with Apache!

Thank you

Kent

Can you elaborate? I had seen this before in one of my projects and
I’m curious to know how you solved it.

Jeff

5

On Jul 11, 2:04 pm, Kent F. [email protected]
wrote:

On my dev machine I switched from Apache to nginx and everything worked
very well. Unless you are using passenger I would suggest not using
Apache, but that’s just my opinion.

Hope this helps, if my host gives me any information I will be happy to
post it.

Interesting… thanks a lot for the update.

Jeff