Hi,
I think you need to make two changes;
(a) Use the rails routing to tag this as an XML request
(b) Use HTTP Basic Authentication to authenticate the request.
This means changing your URL above to include the username, password like this
me:secret@localhost:3000/foos/1.xml
also note .xml bit
I guess that somewhere on your server-side you have code that authenticates in-bound requests via a before filter. This needs to work something like this ...
#
# If you haven't authenticated already then you are either
# reqirected to the logon screen (for HTML formats) or
# the browser prompts you. You are always allowed to pass
# the username/password in the URL
#
def login_required
@current_user = valid_session?
unless @current_user
if params["format"]
#
# If you specify a format you must authenticate now
#
do_basic_authentication
else
display_logon_screen
end
end
end
#
# Ask Rails for the login and password then authenticate as if this
# were a new login.
#
def do_basic_authentication
user = authenticate_with_http_basic do |login, password|
User.authenticate(login, password)
end
if user
current_user(@current_user = user)
else
request_http_basic_authentication
end
end
That's from our own app and is triggered by a before_filter in ApplicationController.
Also, I don't think you need the :content_type => 'application/xml'. What I normally do is just call post or put directly like this ..
response = RestClient.post URI.encode(url), :record => args
where the url contains the basic authentication and the ".xml"
Happy coding
Chris