HTTP Authentication in OS X is broken for RESTful Rails

From the Mac OS X Leopard Technology Overview:

Leopard Server features a built-in installation of the powerful and productive Ruby on Rails web application framework. Ruby on Rails is a full stack framework optimized for sustainable productivity. Leopard Server will ship with Mongrel for simplified development and deployment of web-based applications.

That’s great. I only hope this bug will be fixed too. It would be somewhat ironic if you can’t use HTTP Basic Authentication in Safari with the new RESTful Ruby on Rails urls.

If you have access to the latest pre-release version of Mac OS X Leopard, please visit http://onautopilot.com/test;webkit and let us know if you get asked for a username and password or if it’s still broken.

Update: Tim found that you can make this work by url-escaping the semicolon. Add the following to your ApplicationController in app/controllers/application.rb:

# make HTTP Authentication work on Safari for RESTful Rails
def url_for(options = {}, *parameters_for_method_reference)
  result = super(options, parameters_for_method_reference)
  if request.env['HTTP_USER_AGENT'].to_s.include? 'AppleWebKit' 
    result.is_a?(String) ? result.gsub(';', '%3B') : result
  else
    result
  end
end