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  Bryan Helmkamp October 21st, 2008 @ 11:31 PM

  • State changed from “new” to “resolved”
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  Bryan Helmkamp March 8th, 2009 @ 06:59 PM

  (from [4e07f5b654018965c83425cd1fec14cdb8a87220]) Fix following of absolute redirect URL in Sinatra

  What's going on when the app redirects to an absolute URL?

  • Sinatra relies on Rack::MockSession which sets SERVER_NAME to "example.org" [1] on request it makes. However, Webrat expects it to be "www.example.com"

  • In MyClassyApp, the redirect URL is made out of Rack::Request#url [2] which uses SERVER_NAME, which is set to "example.org" by Rack::MockSession. As a result, Webrat see it as an external redirect and don't follow it.

  NOTE:

  • SERVER_NAME is stricly equivalent to HTTP_HOST [3]

  • This could have been fixed in Webrat::Session too. I'am not sure that it won't affect other frameworks so I left it intact.

    def request_page(url, http_method, data) #:nodoc:

     h = headers
     h['HTTP_REFERER'] = @current_url if @current_url
    
    

  •  h['HTTP_HOST']    = 'www.example.com'
    
    

  [1] http://github.com/rack/rack/blob... [2] http://github.com/rack/rack/blob... [3] http://github.com/rack/rack/blob... http://github.com/brynary/webrat...

• 

  Bryan Helmkamp March 8th, 2009 @ 06:59 PM

  (from [4e07f5b654018965c83425cd1fec14cdb8a87220]) Fix following of absolute redirect URL in Sinatra

  What's going on when the app redirects to an absolute URL?

  • Sinatra relies on Rack::MockSession which sets SERVER_NAME to "example.org" [1] on request it makes. However, Webrat expects it to be "www.example.com"

  • In MyClassyApp, the redirect URL is made out of Rack::Request#url [2] which uses SERVER_NAME, which is set to "example.org" by Rack::MockSession. As a result, Webrat see it as an external redirect and don't follow it.

  NOTE:

  • SERVER_NAME is stricly equivalent to HTTP_HOST [3]

  • This could have been fixed in Webrat::Session too. I'am not sure that it won't affect other frameworks so I left it intact.

    def request_page(url, http_method, data) #:nodoc:

     h = headers
     h['HTTP_REFERER'] = @current_url if @current_url
    
    

  •  h['HTTP_HOST']    = 'www.example.com'
    
    

  [1] http://github.com/rack/rack/blob... [2] http://github.com/rack/rack/blob... [3] http://github.com/rack/rack/blob... http://github.com/brynary/webrat...