I recently had to upload data to my Rails application API using Curl. To make it short, I bypassed the Devise authentication for this specific API. But now it's time to enforce authentication, prior to deployment. This is just a question of adding an Authorization header to the request, isn't it?

I built the following header using login:password with Base64 encoding:

-H "Authorization:Basic QWRtaW46I1Byb3RvdHlwZTEzIQ==" 

Unfortunately, I do not manage to implement Curl's authentication to Devise for posting to the API:

curl --noproxy localhost 
     -d @external_activities.json 
     -H "Authorization:Basic QWRtaW46I1Byb3RvdHlwZTEzIQ==" 
     -H "Content-type: application/json" 
     http://localhost/API/external_activities

The application returns the status 401 Unauthorized.

Thank you for your help!