IOS - Token Authentication in HTTP headers with NSURLRequest
http-headers, ios, iphone, nsurlrequest, objective-c
Solution
It's just a guess, since the right answer depends entirely on what the server expects; but, using other auth schemes as a model, the header would look something like this:
NSString *authHeader = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"token=\"%@\", nonce=\"%@\"", @"tokenHere", @"def"];
[myMutableRequest setValue:authHeader forHTTPHeaderField:@"Authorization"];
In other words, the name of the header field is "Authorization" and it's value is comma separated name=value pairs. The only part of your spec that doesn't make sense is the extra mention of 'token', as in
... Token token=...
Problem
I am having some trouble using HTTP token authentication with a `NSMutableURLRequest`. I have done some research and have used the following question: ios managing authentication tokens from NSURLRequest / HTTP request to learn how to set the token in the HTTP header. However the token I need to set isn't just a simple header field with a value. I need to set an http header field (or multiple) to look like this: `Authorization: Token token="tokenHere", nonce="def"`. The following code snippets are examples of things I have tried that have failed: ``` //failed to authenticate with server [request setValue:@"tokenHere" forHTTPHeaderField:@"token"]; [request setValue:@"def" forHTTPHeaderField:@"nonce"]; //failed as well NSDictionary *authToken = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: @"tokenHere", @"token", @"def", @"nonce", nil]; [request setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Token %@", authToken] forHTTPHeaderField:@"Authorization"]; //failed again [request setValue:@"Authorization: Token token='tokenHere', nonce='def'" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Authorization"]; ``` The back end server is programmed in ruby, and is expecting a single header that looks just like the example above. I need some help crafting the value so that it works with the back end.