Don't create sessions for API calls.

[rails.git] / app / controllers / application.rb

diff --git a/app/controllers/application.rb b/app/controllers/application.rb
index d15604c751209bf140f0affde1a8e9b8c13dbbbb..085a3fa9fe2dcf0ebe37c0e99c28935500bb9b74 100644 (file)
--- a/app/controllers/application.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/application.rb
@@ -7,21 +7,21 @@ class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
   end
 
   def require_user
-    redirect_to :controller => 'user', :action => 'login' unless @user
+    redirect_to :controller => 'user', :action => 'login', :referer => request.request_uri unless @user
   end
 
-  def authorize(realm='Web Password', errormessage="Could't authenticate you") \r
-    username, passwd = get_auth_data # parse from headers\r
+  def authorize(realm='Web Password', errormessage="Couldn't authenticate you") 
+    username, passwd = get_auth_data # parse from headers
     # 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 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 
@@ -34,22 +34,31 @@ class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
       # 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
+      render :text => errormessage, :status => :unauthorized
+      return false
     end 
   end 
 
+  def check_availability
+    if API_READONLY
+      response.headers['Error'] = "Database offline for maintenance"
+      render :nothing => true, :status => :service_unavailable
+      return false
+    end
+  end
+
   # 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
+    render :nothing => true, :status => :bad_request
     # 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\r
+  # 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 
@@ -59,8 +68,8 @@ class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
     end 
     # only basic authentication supported
     if authdata and authdata[0] == 'Basic' 
-      user, pass = Base64.decode64(authdata[1]).split(':')[0..1] 
-    end \r
+      user, pass = Base64.decode64(authdata[1]).split(':',2)
+    end 
     return [user, pass] 
   end