Hi,

I’m running the SVN trunk of tracks, via an Apache 2.2.4 web-server on linux.  I’m trying to use the REST API for somethings and the authentication does not appear to be working.  As per the examples:

This always returns a 401 error.

Tested running

and accessing via port 3000, and it works - so it appears there is an issue with the authentication mechanism when your rails app is running on top of Apache…

I’m running the trunk with a similar setup Apache 2.2.3 with mod_proxy_balancer talking to mongrel 1.0.1 running tracks. I just tried the same curl command you mentioned (with my credentials and server of course) and it worked. Are you using fastcgi? That’s the only difference I could suspect that might somehow be related.

Cheers from NYC,
Luke

Yes, I’m using fastcgi.  Here are the packages (on openSUSE 10.3):

FastCGI 2.4.0-74
apache2-mod_fcgid 2.1-20
ruby-fcgi 0.8.7-87

I suppose I could run a similar setup to yours, but I’d prefer not to have to run yet another daemon process if I can avoid it.

P.S. While I have your attention.  If I had some source patches to submit, what is the process for that?  I find I’m not entirely happy with the task entry form - those auto-completing fields in particular are awkward when trying to just quickly thump a task in…

Plus I want to write a script that can monitor a POP or IMAP mailbox, and pull emails to tasks (hence my exploration of the REST API in the first place).

Guess I better learn Ruby soon…

FCGI is not a very common way to run Rails apps these days. That’s not to say that authentication shouldn’t work that way, just to say that it would be a low priority for me to chase down myself.

Patches should get submitted via attachments on tickets created in our Trac (http://dev.rousette.org.uk/). Log in with guest/guest.

I recommend Ruby for Rails by David Black if you want to start to get your hands dirty. The Rails Way is good, too.

Also, here’s a link around dealing with incoming email using Rails: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToReceiveEmailsWithActionMailer

Cheers from NYC,
Luke

Just tested, and replacing the RewriteRule as suggested on the known issues page works.

http://dev.rousette.org.uk/wiki/Tracks/KnownIssues