more rails front end bits

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

diff --git a/app/controllers/application.rb b/app/controllers/application.rb
index 537de40d7e3bdf68fa3816f217b9b9c997060db5..366646ae395a27da1bfce1d00f77e3d7c359a3a2 100644 (file)
--- a/app/controllers/application.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/application.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,49 @@
 # Filters added to this controller will be run for all controllers in the application.
 # Likewise, all the methods added will be available for all controllers.
 class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
-end
\ No newline at end of file
+
+  def authorize_web
+    @user = User.find_by_token(session[:token])
+  end
+
+  def authorize(realm='Web Password', errormessage="Could't authenticate you") 
+    username, passwd = get_auth_data 
+    # check if authorized 
+    # try to get user 
+    if @user = User.authenticate(username, passwd) 
+      # 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 
+      # 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)
+    end 
+  end 
+
+  private 
+  def get_auth_data 
+    user, pass = '', '' 
+    # extract authorisation credentials 
+    if request.env.has_key? 'X-HTTP_AUTHORIZATION' 
+      # try to get it where mod_rewrite might have put it 
+      authdata = @request.env['X-HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'].to_s.split 
+    elsif request.env.has_key? 'HTTP_AUTHORIZATION' 
+      # this is the regular location 
+      authdata = @request.env['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'].to_s.split  
+    end 
+
+    # at the moment we only support basic authentication 
+    if authdata and authdata[0] == 'Basic' 
+      user, pass = Base64.decode64(authdata[1]).split(':')[0..1] 
+    end 
+    return [user, pass] 
+  end 
+
+end