Testing HTTP Authentication

Posted by Luke Francl
on Tuesday, June 30

If you ever need to test HTTP Authentication in your functional tests, here is how you do it:

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def test_http_auth
  @request.env['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'] = ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Basic.encode_credentials("quentin", "password")
  get :show, :id => @foobar.id

  assert_response :success
end

This is much like testing SSL.

Hat tip: Philipp Führer for Functional test for HTTP Basic Authentication in Rails 2.

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  1. Damien – July 01, 2009 @ 02:26 AM

    And with RSPec

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    it "should test http authentication" do
  request.env['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'] = ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Basic.encode_credentials("quentin", "password")
  
  get :show, :id => @foobar.id
  response.should be_success

end