From 6358a5169762ef7b89d8b6d0f1a99b006f0fdd2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Olav Morken <olav.morken@uninett.no>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 12:19:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix incorrect header used for detecting AJAX requests
The code was looking for "X-Request-With", but the header is actually
"X-Requested-With". As far as I can tell, it has always been the
latter, at least in the jQuery source code.
Fixes issue #174.
---
README.md | 2 +-
auth_mellon_handler.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0a91dc5..8d85b43 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ MellonDiagnosticsEnable Off
# then we will redirect him to the login page of the IdP.
#
# There is a special handling of AJAX requests, that are
- # identified by the "X-Request-With: XMLHttpRequest" HTTP
+ # identified by the "X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest" HTTP
# header. Since no user interaction can happen there,
# we always fail unauthenticated (not logged in) requests
# with a 403 Forbidden error without redirecting to the IdP.
diff --git a/auth_mellon_handler.c b/auth_mellon_handler.c
index b16dc45..e33e6e9 100644
--- a/auth_mellon_handler.c
+++ b/auth_mellon_handler.c
@@ -3658,11 +3658,11 @@ int am_auth_mellon_user(request_rec *r)
* If this is an AJAX request, we cannot proceed to the IdP,
* Just fail early to save our resources
*/
- ajax_header = apr_table_get(r->headers_in, "X-Request-With");
+ ajax_header = apr_table_get(r->headers_in, "X-Requested-With");
if (ajax_header != NULL &&
strcmp(ajax_header, "XMLHttpRequest") == 0) {
AM_LOG_RERROR(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_INFO, 0, r,
- "Deny unauthenticated X-Request-With XMLHttpRequest "
+ "Deny unauthenticated X-Requested-With XMLHttpRequest "
"(AJAX) request");
return HTTP_FORBIDDEN;
}
--
2.20.1