Access Denied Error when using XHR PUT and DELETE

Late one night, I was attempting to wire up a delete button on a Rails app using XHR. However, every time I attempted to make the XHR call, I saw AccessDenied in the server log and my session was un authenticated. Since it was late, I remapped it to a different URL and moved on.

However, the fact that this did not work still bothered me and when I revisited it after a good night’s sleep, the answer was quite obvious. My Ajax setup (copied from many Rails projects ago) looked like:

http://gist.github.com/1769263

I was only setting the X-CSRF-Token on a POST. Therefore, when the server received the DELETE verb, it killed the session, thinking that something was afoul.

Changing that line to:

http://gist.github.com/1769443

fixed the issue in the correct way.

Import your wordpress blog into Tumblr

Last week, I searched rather fruitlessly for a way to import my wordpress blog into Tumblr. There were a few snippets and examples out on the web, but they all used the older API or required email addresses and passwords for authentication.

Since I couldn’t find what I was looking for, I opened up my IDE, fought with OAuth, and created a Wordpress to Tumblr importer.

Using the importer is pretty easy, you just need ruby and bundlr. The script is a sinatra application so you should will only need normal Tumblr OAuth access and not require XAuth approval.

Source: github.com