For some reason I\'m getting an InvalidAuthenticityToken when making post requests to my application when using json or xml. My understanding is that rails should require an
With protect_from_forgery
enabled, Rails requires an authenticity token for any non-GET requests. Rails will automatically include the authenticity token in forms created with the form helpers or links created with the AJAX helpers--so in normal cases, you won't have to think about it.
If you're not using the built-in Rails form or AJAX helpers (maybe you're doing unobstrusive JS or using a JS MVC framework), you'll have to set the token yourself on the client side and send it along with your data when submitting a POST request. You'd put a line like this in the <head>
of your layout:
<%= javascript_tag "window._token = '#{form_authenticity_token}'" %>
Then your AJAX function would post the token with your other data (example with jQuery):
$.post(url, {
id: theId,
authenticity_token: window._token
});
To add to Fernando's answer, if your controller responds to both json and html, you can use:
skip_before_filter :verify_authenticity_token, if: :json_request?
Another way is to avoid verify_authenticity_token using skip_before_filter in your Rails App:
skip_before_action :verify_authenticity_token, only: [:action1, :action2]
This will let curl to do its job.
Adding up to andymism's answer you can use this to apply the default inclusion of the TOKEN in every POST request:
$(document).ajaxSend(function(event, request, settings) {
if ( settings.type == 'POST' || settings.type == 'post') {
settings.data = (settings.data ? settings.data + "&" : "")
+ "authenticity_token=" + encodeURIComponent( window._token );
}
});
I had a similar situation and the problem was that I was not sending through the right content type headers - I was requesting text/json
and I should have been requesting application/json
.
I used curl
the following to test my application (modify as necessary):
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"person": {"last_name": "Lambie","first_name": "Matthew"}}' -X POST http://localhost:3000/people.json -i
Or you can save the JSON to a local file and call curl
like this:
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -v -d @person.json -X POST http://localhost:3000/people.json -i
When I changed the content type headers to the right application/json
all my troubles went away and I no longer needed to disable forgery protection.
This is the same as @user1756254's answer but in Rails 5 you need to use a bit more different syntax:
protect_from_forgery unless: -> { request.format.json? }
Source: http://api.rubyonrails.org/v5.0/classes/ActionController/RequestForgeryProtection.html