class Rack::Protection::HttpOrigin

Prevented attack

CSRF

Supported browsers

Google Chrome 2, Safari 4 and later

More infos

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_request_forgery tools.ietf.org/html/draft-abarth-origin

Does not accept unsafe HTTP requests when value of Origin HTTP request header does not match default or whitelisted URIs.

Constants

DEFAULT_PORTS

Public Instance Methods

accepts?(env) click to toggle source
# File lib/rack/protection/http_origin.rb, line 23
def accepts?(env)
  return true if safe? env
  return true unless origin = env['HTTP_ORIGIN']
  return true if base_url(env) == origin
  Array(options[:origin_whitelist]).include? origin
end
base_url(env) click to toggle source
# File lib/rack/protection/http_origin.rb, line 17
def base_url(env)
  request = Rack::Request.new(env)
  port = ":#{request.port}" unless request.port == DEFAULT_PORTS[request.scheme]
  "#{request.scheme}://#{request.host}#{port}"
end