#82 HTTP Basic Authentication

Railscasts - HTTP Basic Authentication:

#82 HTTP Basic Authentication Dec 02, 2007 | 4 minutes | Administration , Controllers , Rails 2.0 , Authentication Rails 2.0 offers an extremely easy way to do HTTP basic authentication. See how in this episode. Click to Play Video ▶ Tweet Download: mp4 Full Size H.264 Video (7.95 MB) m4v Smaller H.264 Video (4.88 MB) webm Full Size VP8 Video (13.1 MB) ogv Full Size Theora Video (10.1 MB) Show Notes 49 Comments Similar Episodes Next Episode > < Previous Episode Resources ActionController::HttpAuthentication Episode 21: Super Simple Authentication products_controller.rb before_filter :authenticate protected def authenticate authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic do |username, password| username == "foo" && password == "bar" end end before_filter :authenticate protected def authenticate authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic do |username, password| username == " foo " && p...

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