Sorry... what? Your answer is somewhat cryptic...

Are you recommending http basic?

On Jan 13, 1:16 pm, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On 13 Jan 2009, at 11:08, phil wrote:
>
>
>
> > isn't that a security hole?
> > Is there a way around this with some sort of authentication on the
> > method? (http basic for instance)?
> > Could I do what you suggest but then also code the method to use that?
>
> You're not going to want to have crsf tokens and what not for an api.  
> It doesn't make any sense. Use http basic, restrict it to requests  
> from the internal network, use api tokens etc... etc...
> The world is your oyster.
>
> Fred
>
> > Sorry - this kind of thing is new to me!
>
> > On Jan 13, 11:05 am, "Simon Macneall" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Hi,
>
> >> Put protect_from_forgery :except => :index at the top of your  
> >> controller,
> >> where :index is your action.
>
> >> Cheers
> >> Simon
>
> >> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:28:28 +0900, phil <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >>> Hi,
> >>> I am trying to post some data to our existing Rails application  
> >>> from a
> >>> seperate java application. I am running into the problem of not  
> >>> having
> >>> a valid authenticity token. How can I get around this?
> >>> The java app is not totally under our control so I don't think I can
> >>> add stuff like session handling to it (and I shouldn't have to!).
>
> >>> Anyone have experience with this?
>
> >>> Thanks!
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