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Location Header for Yahoo! OpenID in Rails App

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No, only the response from the controller method which responds to '/' has to include the header. You can set this header with:

response.headers['X-XRDS-Location'] = "http://#{request.host}/xrds"

dhofstet 2010-09-19 11:44:56

Thanks for the response dhofstet. My root route points to my welcome#home action, and I've added your suggested code above to the action before I render the view. I also have a welcome#xrds action that serves up the XRDS xml file via "send_data IO.open ...". I'm using an action for this so I can set the Content-Type for the XRDS file... does it make sense to do things this way?

Bryan 2010-09-21 00:37:39

Nevermind, seems as though it just doesn't work well when testing on localhost... testing it on a staging server reachable from the Interweb works fine. Sweet!

Bryan 2010-09-21 00:44:52

Yes, this makes sense. Personally, I use a normal erb view for the xrds content instead of "send_data".

dhofstet 2010-09-21 05:10:14

Actually, after further inspection, it looks like the Content-Type is not getting set correctly when I try to set it using response.headers['Content-Type'] or response.content_type=(). Does the MIME Type override any Content-Type I set in the controller?

Bryan 2010-09-24 06:17:08

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