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authorTim Ruffles <timruffles@googlemail.com>2013-07-26 16:47:18 +0100
committerTim Ruffles <timruffles@googlemail.com>2013-08-06 10:55:58 +0100
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be more specific about csrf token and ajax - not whitelisted outside of jquery-rails [ci skip]
-rw-r--r--actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/csrf_helper.rb7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/csrf_helper.rb b/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/csrf_helper.rb
index eeb0ed94b9..5af92c4ff2 100644
--- a/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/csrf_helper.rb
+++ b/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/csrf_helper.rb
@@ -12,8 +12,11 @@ module ActionView
# These are used to generate the dynamic forms that implement non-remote links with
# <tt>:method</tt>.
#
- # Note that regular forms generate hidden fields, and that Ajax calls are whitelisted,
- # so they do not use these tags.
+ # You don't need to use these tags for regular forms as they generate their own hidden fields.
+ #
+ # For AJAX requests other than GETs, extract the "csrf-token" from the meta-tag and send as the
+ # "X-CSRF-Token" HTTP header. If you are using jQuery with jquery-rails this happens automatically.
+ #
def csrf_meta_tags
if protect_against_forgery?
[