How to Use Basic Authentication with Httparty in a Rails App

How to use basic authentication with httparty in a Rails app?

auth = {:username => "test", :password => "test"}
@blah = HTTParty.get("http://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.json", 
                     :basic_auth => auth)

Doing a Http basic authentication in rails

Write the below code, in the controller which you want to restrict using http basic authentication

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  http_basic_authenticate_with :name => "user", :password => "password" 
end

Making a request with open-uri would look like this:

require 'open-uri'

open("http://www.your-website.net/", 
  http_basic_authentication: ["user", "password"])

How can I use Digest and Basic authentications with HTTParty in the same class?

When you use basic_auth or digest_auth, HTTParty stores the information internally in the @default_options hash. Here is the source for basic_auth:

# File 'lib/httparty.rb', line 102

def basic_auth(u, p)
  default_options[:basic_auth] = {:username => u, :password => p}
end

You can get access to that hash using the default_options method:

# File 'lib/httparty.rb', line 452

def default_options #:nodoc:
  @default_options
end

I'd try:

default_options.delete(:basic_auth)

or:

default_options.delete(:digest_auth)

prior to using the other authentication method.

This is untested code but looks 'bout right:

class Test
  include HTTParty
  debug_output $stdout

  def first_request(href)
    klass = self.class
    klass.base_uri "SERVER:PORT"
    klass.default_options.delete(:basic_auth)
    klass.digest_auth 'login', 'pass'
    klass.get(href, {:query => {}})
  end

  def second_request(href)
    klass = self.class
    klass.default_options.delete(:digest_auth)
    klass.post(
      '',
      {
        :body => xml_string,
        :basic_auth => {
          :username => "USERNAME",
          :password => "PASSWORD"
        }
      }
    )
  end
end

RestClient/HTTParty authentication parameters not being used

I can't understand your saying Works but is wrong but Charity Navigator Data API request the sending app_id and app_key keys through the parameters, not header.

Your first code looks correct.

Second code, app_key key was sent by header, not params. So API response 403.

Third code, coded with httpart gem, dose not use parameters but headers. So Charity Navigator Data API response Authentication parameters missing error. It's normal.

require 'httparty'

class StackExchange
  include HTTParty
  base_uri 'https://api.data.charitynavigator.org/v2/'

  def posts
    options = { 
      query: {
        app_id: '2b1ffdad',
        app_key: 'XXXX'
      }
    }

    self.class.get("/Organizations/", options)
  end
end

charity = Charity.new
puts charity.posts

But you can use parameters by query option in httparty. Read the httparty docs and this SO. And you can use parameters options in rest-client gem, too. And I recommend use it strongly.

HTTParty Digest Auth

you can set the username and password using the digest_auth method when defining your class

class Foo
  include HTTParty
  digest_auth 'username', 'password'
end

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