# Curling REST controllers behind restful\_authentication **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 11, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/curling-rest-controllers-behind-restful-authentication/142807 "2008-07-11T18:50:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![thejackal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/919ad9/32.png) [@thejackal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thejackal)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/curling-rest-controllers-behind-restful-authentication/142807/1 "2008-07-11T18:50:40Z")
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](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](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 ---
**Author:** ![thejackal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/919ad9/32.png) [@thejackal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thejackal)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/curling-rest-controllers-behind-restful-authentication/142807/2 "2008-07-11T20:36:34Z")
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](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](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 ---
**Author:** ![thejackal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/919ad9/32.png) [@thejackal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thejackal)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2008, 8:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/curling-rest-controllers-behind-restful-authentication/142807/3 "2008-07-11T20:56:56Z")
On Jul 11, 1:36 pm, Kent F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) 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 ---
**Author:** ![thejackal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/919ad9/32.png) [@thejackal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thejackal)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/curling-rest-controllers-behind-restful-authentication/142807/4 "2008-07-11T21:04:56Z")
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. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > 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 ---
**Author:** ![thejackal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/919ad9/32.png) [@thejackal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thejackal)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2008, 11:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/curling-rest-controllers-behind-restful-authentication/142807/5 "2008-07-11T23:56:18Z")
On Jul 11, 2:04 pm, Kent F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) 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