rpc: Add WWW-Authenticate header to 401 response

A WWW-Authenticate header must be present in the 401
response to make clients know that they can authenticate,
and how.

    WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="jsonrpc"

Fixes #7462.
pull/7472/head
Wladimir J. van der Laan 9 years ago
parent 152a8216cc
commit 7c06fbd8f5

@ -21,6 +21,9 @@
#include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp> // boost::trim
#include <boost/foreach.hpp> //BOOST_FOREACH
/** WWW-Authenticate to present with 401 Unauthorized response */
static const char* WWW_AUTH_HEADER_DATA = "Basic realm=\"jsonrpc\"";
/** Simple one-shot callback timer to be used by the RPC mechanism to e.g.
* re-lock the wellet.
*/
@ -151,6 +154,7 @@ static bool HTTPReq_JSONRPC(HTTPRequest* req, const std::string &)
// Check authorization
std::pair<bool, std::string> authHeader = req->GetHeader("authorization");
if (!authHeader.first) {
req->WriteHeader("WWW-Authenticate", WWW_AUTH_HEADER_DATA);
req->WriteReply(HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED);
return false;
}
@ -163,6 +167,7 @@ static bool HTTPReq_JSONRPC(HTTPRequest* req, const std::string &)
shouldn't have their RPC port exposed. */
MilliSleep(250);
req->WriteHeader("WWW-Authenticate", WWW_AUTH_HEADER_DATA);
req->WriteReply(HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED);
return false;
}

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