API + tokens?

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Hi all,

This is almost certainly a noob question, but I've hit a wall developing my rails3 app.

I am looking to integrate various sections with a legacy system based on PHP. I had envisaged this being fairly straight forward, using curl to send POST requests for example. The issue / dilema I have is that all requests are met with an InvalidAuthenticityToken error. I don't want to lose this security feature, but am not sure how to proceed in terms of providing a secure API for the integration.

Is it possible to send a set token along with all requests, or am I missing something here?

Any pointers would be much appreciated!

Cheers,

Paul Taylor

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Which direction are you curling in? From PHP to Rails, or vice-versa?

Walter

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From PHP to rails currently, I will need to work in both directions however going forward but could possibly just use MySQL queries from Rails to the PHP app if required

Thanks,

Paul

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paulo wrote:

Hi all,

This is almost certainly a noob question, but I've hit a wall developing my rails3 app.

I am looking to integrate various sections with a legacy system based on PHP. I had envisaged this being fairly straight forward, using curl to send POST requests for example. The issue / dilema I have is that all requests are met with an InvalidAuthenticityToken error. I don't want to lose this security feature, but am not sure how to proceed in terms of providing a secure API for the integration.

For API calls, you probably don't want the authenticity token. That's only for Rails-generated forms, as a measure of protection against spoofed requests. It's meaningless for APIs. If you want a secure API, you'll better off using OAuth or HTTP-Basic authentication, not the Rails authenticity token.

A quick Google search turned up

for turning off the token check sometimes.

Is it possible to send a set token along with all requests,

I don't believe so.

or am I missing something here?

Any pointers would be much appreciated!

Cheers,

Paul Taylor

Best,

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Right, will start looking in that direction then, thanks for that Marnen

Paul