end
def require_user
- redirect_to :controller => 'user', :action => 'login' unless @user
+ redirect_to :controller => 'user', :action => 'login', :next_controller => controller_name, :next_action => action_name unless @user
end
- def authorize(realm='Web Password', errormessage="Could't authenticate you") \r
- username, passwd = get_auth_data # parse from headers\r
- # authenticate per-scheme
- if username.nil?\r
- @user = nil # no authentication provided - perhaps first connect (client should retry after 401)\r
- elsif username == 'token' \r
- @user = User.authenticate_token(passwd) # preferred - random token for user from db, passed in basic auth\r
- else\r
- @user = User.authenticate(username, passwd) # basic auth\r
- end\r
- \r
- # handle authenticate pass/fail\r
- if @user
- # user exists and password is correct ... horray!
- if @user.methods.include? 'lastlogin' # note last login
- @session['lastlogin'] = user.lastlogin
- @user.last.login = Time.now
- @user.save()
- @session["User.id"] = @user.id
- end
- else
- # no auth, the user does not exist or the password was wrong
- response.headers["Status"] = "Unauthorized"
- response.headers["WWW-Authenticate"] = "Basic realm=\"#{realm}\""
- render_text(errormessage, 401) # :unauthorized
- end
+ def authorize(realm='Web Password', errormessage="Couldn't authenticate you")
+ unless request.get?
+ username, passwd = get_auth_data # parse from headers
+ # authenticate per-scheme
+ if username.nil?
+ @user = nil # no authentication provided - perhaps first connect (client should retry after 401)
+ elsif username == 'token'
+ @user = User.authenticate_token(passwd) # preferred - random token for user from db, passed in basic auth
+ else
+ @user = User.authenticate(username, passwd) # basic auth
+ end
+
+ # handle authenticate pass/fail
+ if @user
+ # user exists and password is correct ... horray!
+ if @user.methods.include? 'lastlogin' # note last login
+ @session['lastlogin'] = user.lastlogin
+ @user.last.login = Time.now
+ @user.save()
+ @session["User.id"] = @user.id
+ end
+ else
+ # no auth, the user does not exist or the password was wrong
+ response.headers["Status"] = "Unauthorized"
+ response.headers["WWW-Authenticate"] = "Basic realm=\"#{realm}\""
+ render_text(errormessage, 401) # :unauthorized
+ end
+ end
end
- # extract authorisation credentials from headers, returns user = nil if none\r
+ # Report and error to the user
+ # (If anyone ever fixes Rails so it can set a http status "reason phrase",
+ # rather than only a status code and having the web engine make up a
+ # phrase from that, we can also put the error message into the status
+ # message. For now, rails won't let us)
+ def report_error(message)
+ render :nothing => true, :status => 400
+ # Todo: some sort of escaping of problem characters in the message
+ response.headers['Error'] = message
+ end
+
+ # extract authorisation credentials from headers, returns user = nil if none
private
def get_auth_data
if request.env.has_key? 'X-HTTP_AUTHORIZATION' # where mod_rewrite might have put it
# only basic authentication supported
if authdata and authdata[0] == 'Basic'
user, pass = Base64.decode64(authdata[1]).split(':')[0..1]
- end \r
+ end
return [user, pass]
end