Question

I was wondering if there is a way to know if the http request made to a rails app is in cUrl?

I have a code that does some front-end process and is specific only for http request done through the web browser. Now, I want to be able to differentiate the normal http request to a cUrl request so that I can make another process only for cUrl request.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

if request.env["HTTP_USER_AGENT"] =~ /curl/i

in your controller should do the trick. Or you can do this in the routing level with the user agent option:

get '/resource' => 'Controller#curl_logic', constraints: {user_agent: /curl/i}
get '/resource/' => 'Controller#view_logic' # everything else