set authentication token in http header

Question

I have been following the railscast on how to set authentication tokens http://railscasts.com/episodes/352-securing-an-api?view=asciicast

I have setup my app very we

Answer 1

The header name isn't HTTP_AUTHORIZATION and you have to set it like this set it as:

request['authorization'] = "Token token=#{token}"

To be able to use the authenticate_or_request_with_http_token method.