File download with query params

[jakemauer]

Hey there!

We're using Rails as an API backend to an Ember app using token auth. One issue I'm running into is we have a few API endpoints to download a file. Since we're no longer using cookies and since I can't set auth headers for a GET the download gets a big fat 401.

Is it possible to pass the token/email as query params for authenticating certain requests? If that suggestion makes your spidey sense go off, what's a good pattern for this case?

Thank you!

[nicolas-besnard]

You can set auth headers on a GET request
On Sat 16 May 2015 at 10:44 Jake Mauer notifications@github.com wrote:

Hey there!

We're using Rails as an API backend to an Ember app using token auth. One
issue I'm running into is we have a few API endpoints to download a file.
Since we're no longer using cookies and since I can't set auth headers for
a GET the download gets a big fat 401.

Is it possible to pass the token/email as query params for authenticating
certain requests? If that suggestion makes your spidey sense go off, what's
a good pattern for this case?

Thank you!

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[jakemauer]

Well that’s cool, thanks Nicolas!