what is InvalidAuthenticityToken?

[Zhenning Guan]

I create a ruby script to submit a post to my local rails application,
but doesn't return a data. so I open a log file, saw this.
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ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken
(ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken):
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:104:in `service'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:65:in `run'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:173:in `start_thread'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:162:in `start'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:162:in `start_thread'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:95:in `start'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:92:in `each'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:92:in `start'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:23:in `start'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:82:in `start'
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I want to submit a post, How can I ?
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[Andy Jeffries]

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/security.html#cross-site-request-forgery-csrf

You can use:

http://apidock.com/rails/ActionController/RequestForgeryProtection/form_authenticity_token

To get the value (or use form_for, which automatically handles it).

Cheers,

Andy

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