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 72938409625315eb92b677a19aaa086bee9a773e..085a3fa9fe2dcf0ebe37c0e99c28935500bb9b74 100644 (file)
--- a/app/controllers/application.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/application.rb
@@ -34,10 +34,19 @@ 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 
@@ -59,7 +68,7 @@ class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
     end 
     # only basic authentication supported
     if authdata and authdata[0] == 'Basic' 
-      user, pass = Base64.decode64(authdata[1]).split(':')[0..1] 
+      user, pass = Base64.decode64(authdata[1]).split(':',2)
     end 
     return [user, pass] 
   end