I'm not a ruby or rails programmer, but I'm tasked with reverse engineering an API for an RoR app. My HTTP POST requests are failing a validation check, where this line is supposed to provide a specific piece of data:
value = @_request.env['HTTP_X_MY_TOKEN'];
From what little experience I have and searching I've done, it appears to be looking for an HTTP request header MY_TOKEN but I'm unsure if that's the case.
My current HTTP request looks like this:
POST /myapp HTTP/1.1
Host: website.com:80
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 12
my post data
If that is the case, can I simply add it to my HTTP post request headers as follows:
POST /myapp HTTP/1.1
Host: website.com:80
Content-Type: application/json
MY_TOKEN: sometokentext
Content-Length: 12
my post data
If not, how do I fill this value during my HTTP POST request?
Sending X-MY-TOKEN should do the trick.
As a side note, prepending custom headers with X- is no longer recommended and deprecated according to RFC-6648: