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HTTP Basic Authentication

#82 HTTP Basic Authentication

Dec 02, 2007 | 4 minutes | Controllers, Administration, Rails 2.0, Authentication
Rails 2.0 offers an extremely easy way to do HTTP basic authentication. See how in this episode.
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Resources

products_controller.rb 
before_filter :authenticate

protected

def authenticate
  authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic do |username, password|
    username == "foo" && password == "bar"
  end
end