On Saturday, June 23, 2012 8:45:50 AM UTC-4, Arash wrote:
> Thanks Tarique, it looks to be the correct way but i didn't have any
> success using it!
> Here is what i did:
> 1. used HTTP Basic Authentication
> class AppController extends Controller {
>> public $components = array(
>> 'Session',
>> 'RequestHandler',
>> 'Auth' => array(
>> 'authenticate' => array(
>> 'Basic' => array(
>> 'fields' => array('username' => 'email'),
>> 'realm' => 'touch'
>> ),
>> ),
>> )
>> );
>> }
> 2. created a login method which lets cross domain requests and cros domain
> authorization
> class UsersController extends AppController {
>> public function login() {
>> header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *");
>> header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Authorization");
>> $response = false;
>> if ($this->Auth->login()) {
>> $response = true;
>> }
>> $this->set('response',$response);
>> }
> 3. i've added this line to router file so that i can use json
>> Router::parseExtensions('json');
> 4. in the client side, i make login request using ajax like this:
> $.ajax({
>> url: url,
>> dataType: "json",
>> crossDomain: true,
>> beforeSend: function(xhr){
>> xhr.setRequestHeader("Authorization", "Basic " +
>> Base64.encode(email + ":" + password));
>> },
>> success: function ( response ) {
>> console.log(response);
>> },
>> error: function (xhr, ajaxOptions, thrownError) {
>> console.log(xhr);
>> }
>> });
> The problem is that after i login successfully the next ajax requests get
> 401 (Unauthorized), i've tried to debug the problem and it seems that once
> client login, the next ajax requests get 401 because the get user method in
> BasicAuthenticate class can't get the user via env('PHP_AUTH_USER') and
> env('PHP_AUTH_PW')
> Any idea why after successful ajax login the next ajax requests get 401
> (Unauthorized) response?! why the authentication system can't get user by
> env('PHP_AUTH_USER') ?
> On Friday, June 22, 2012 1:05:27 PM UTC+4:30, Dr. Tarique Sani wrote:
>> See
>> http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-libraries/components/authenticati...
>> Tarique
>> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 3:35 AM, Arash wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > We are working on a mobile app for our SAAS website which uses Cake
>> 1.3,
>> > we've decided to use Jquery mobile+ Phonegap so we will use the HTML5
>> power
>> > for building a mobile app.
>> > The whole app is an HTML page with a few js ans css files which will be
>> > running natively on the mobile and will interact with server with Ajax.
>> > The problem we encountered here is that using the cakephp Auth the
>> session
>> > id is not being saved on the browser (because the page is not being
>> served
>> > from a webserver i think) so we don't have access to the session and we
>> > can't know for sure if the user is authenticated or not.
>> > I've seen some mobile authentication systems that provide a Token after
>> > login, save it in browser local storage and send this token with each
>> ajax
>> > request to the server, the server checks the token and if it is valid
>> then
>> > severs the data.
>> > Is there any reasonable way of authenticating users on a mobile app
>> using
>> > the Auth component?!
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