How to use http authentication in devise with an optional omniauth token as the authentication token

Question

We have a rails app setup that uses devise & omniauth to allow logging in via facebook authentication. We also have a mobile app that is currently using http authentication

Answer 1

If you are setting request headers in xcode 4.3.2 you could use:

[request setValue:@"12345" forHTTPHeaderField:@"fbaccesstoken"];

but you cannot use:

[request setValue:@"12345" forHTTPHeaderField:@"fb_access_token"]; // does NOT get set