Sending custom headers in Find method in ActiveResource:Base

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Hi there,

About this method: find (ActiveResource::Base) - APIdock

How do I set custom headers?

I am communicating with a Rest API that requires a cookie.

I've tried a lot of different things, searches and been looking for a solution a long time now.

Please help.

Regards,

Nadeem

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No one knows?

I don't think anyone really knows what you're asking. What do you mean by "custom headers" in a find? Headers have nothing to do with an AR find. Are you talking about browser headers (I guess it's something to do with a browser, as you mention cookies, but you don't say anything else about the problem domain.

I've tried to monkey paths rails to do this, but didn't work.

What "didn't work"? What was the functionality you were trying to achieve? How did you try to patch it? What result did you get (which as you say, wasn't what you wanted - but *something*, even just an error, must have happened).

Please help :slight_smile:

http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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In four days you haven't yet read the ActiveResource documentation?

Or just tried googling `ActiveResource headers` ?!?

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Of course... you pointed the ActiveResource, and I've assumed ActiveRecord. Sorry for that. But still, you're not really doing enough to answer your own question:

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I'll try to rephrase:

I'm trying to forward a cookie from the user-end to the API that receives the request from ActiveResource::Base.find

What I want to be able to do in my Controller is this:

User.find(1, :headers => { :cookies => session['user'] }

And have this send the cookie from the user browsing my site, to the API that is specified in self.site.

I'm sorry for ambiguity earlier. Hopefully it is clearer now :slight_smile:

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This guy understood my problem, and answered accordingly:

http://prblm.aakashd.com/rails-activeresource-httpauthorization-header