[Rails] Re: CSRF tokens for mobile apps

2012-12-29 Thread Matt Jones
On Sunday, 20 May 2012 19:26:08 UTC-4, Anish wrote: > > I have an existing rails backend website which makes json ajax calls to my > server and I was passing csrf tokens in every ajax call. Now,I am > developing a mobile iOS app to use the same backend and send calls in json. > However, mobile

[Rails] Re: CSRF tokens for mobile apps

2012-12-29 Thread mkristian
that is straight forward: just copy the form_authenticity_token to a header field and let your app send it back as header https://github.com/mkristian/ixtlan-translations/blob/master/app/controllers/local_controller.rb that is the controller I use as base for my controllers talking to rest-clie

[Rails] Re: CSRF tokens for mobile apps

2012-12-28 Thread Keith L.
Hey Jim, don't be a jerk, especially when your answer is wrong. Using <%= form_authenticity_token %> doesn't work because you don't have a server to dynamically insert content into html as an app is static and packaged on the client device (iPhone/iPad). CSRF should not be a possible attack ins

[Rails] Re: CSRF tokens for mobile apps

2012-05-21 Thread Jim
> I have an existing rails backend website which makes json ajax calls to my > server and I was passing csrf tokens in every ajax call. Now,I am > developing a mobile iOS app to use the same backend and send calls in json. > However, mobile requests are failing with "Can't verify CSRF token > authe