SecureURI

Adds the ability for URI to generate and validate secure URLs.

Installation

sudo gem install secure_uri

Usage

Generate a secure URI

require "secure_uri"

# Set our secret key for hashing, be sure to keep this private!
SecureURI.hasher.salt = "our secret key"

url = URI.parse("http://example.com/action?some=data")
url.secure!

url.to_s # => "http://example.com/action?some=data&hash=d988eb197f2120493b4f1e01382af508ffd123dca791e011fea93d71d01690cf"

Check if a URL is secure

request_uri = URI.parse("http://example.com/action?some=data&hash=d988eb197f2120493b4f1e01382af508ffd123dca791e011fea93d71d01690cf")
request_uri.valid? # => true

Copyright

Copyright © 2009 Brightbox Systems Ltd. See LICENSE for details.