Modifying Headers in Server Is Messy
Reported by Matt Todd | January 21st, 2008 @ 12:00 AM | in Release 0.4.0
There should be a cleaner way to modify headers (for all requests) and for specific requests. For instance, perhaps it should just be a class method like this:
class Foo < Halcyon::Server::Base
headers :on => [:foo, :bar] do |req|
req['Header-Field'] = 'Value'
req
end
end
Specifically with the Basic Authorization, it should only attempt authentication on actions that need it.
class Foo < Halcyon::Server::Auth::Basic
basic_authorization :on => [:foo, :bar] do |user, pass|
[user, pass] == ['rupert', 'secret']
end
end
Comments and changes to this ticket
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Matt Todd February 5th, 2008 @ 12:13 PM
- State changed from “new” to “open”
Fixed the clumsiness of the basic_authorization call, implementing almost exactly the example above. Instead of basic_authorization, the method is now called basic_auth, and it now accepts options for only certain actions or all except a few, though by default it requires basic authorization for all actions.
For example:
class Foo < Halcyon::Server::Auth::Basic basic_auth :only => [:foo, :bar] do |user, pass| [user, pass] == ['rupert', 'secret'] end end -
Matt Todd February 10th, 2008 @ 10:12 PM
- State changed from “open” to “resolved”
For now, this should be sufficient since, when performing requests, you can easily supply additional headers.
For example.
get('/foo/bar', {'X-Special-Header' => 'value'})This will be reevaluated in 0.5.0 when the server and client internals have been restructured for more elegant options for whole-application header values or callbacks allowing quick modification before being sent, but this will be sufficient for now.
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