ascarter-auth-hmac 1.0.1

data/History.txt

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+== 1.0.1 2008-08-22
+
+* Fixed nil pointer exception when with_auth called with nil creds.
+
+== 1.0.0 2008-08-11
+
+* Initial release

data/License.txt

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+Copyright (c) 2008 The Kaphan Foundation
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

data/Manifest.txt

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+History.txt
+License.txt
+Manifest.txt
+PostInstall.txt
+README.txt
+Rakefile
+config/hoe.rb
+config/requirements.rb
+lib/auth-hmac.rb
+lib/auth-hmac/version.rb
+script/console
+script/destroy
+script/generate
+setup.rb
+spec/auth-hmac_spec.rb
+spec/spec.opts
+spec/spec_helper.rb
+tasks/deployment.rake
+tasks/environment.rake
+tasks/rspec.rake
+tasks/website.rake

data/PostInstall.txt

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+
+For more information on auth-hmac, see http://auth-hmac.rubyforge.org
+
+NOTE: Change this information in PostInstall.txt 
+You can also delete it if you don't want it.
+
+

data/README.txt

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+= auth-hmac
+
+== What is it?
+
+auth-hmac is a Ruby implementation of HMAC[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAC] based authentication of HTTP requests.
+
+HMAC authentication involves a client and server having a shared secret key.  When sending the request the client, signs the request using the secret key. This involves building a canonical representation of the request and then generating a HMAC of the request using the secret. The generated HMAC is then sent as part of the request.
+
+When the server receives the request it builds the same canonical representation and generates a HMAC using it's copy of the secret key, if the HMAC produced by the server matches the HMAC sent by the client, the server can be assured that the client also possesses the shared secret key.
+
+HMAC based authentication also provides message integrity checking because the HMAC is based on a combination of the shared secret and the content of the request.  So if any part of the request that is used to build the canonical representation is modified by a malicious party or in transit the authentication will then fail.
+
+AuthHMAC was built to support authentication between various applications build by Peerworks[http://peerworks.org].
+
+AuthHMAC is loosely based on the Amazon Web Services authentication scheme but without the Amazon specific components, i.e. it is HMAC for the rest of us.
+
+== What does it require?
+
+AuthHMAC requires Ruby's OpenSSL support.  This should be standard in most Ruby builds.
+
+== When to use it?
+
+HMAC Authentication is best used as authentication for communication between applications such as web services.  It provides better security than HTTP Basic authentication without the need to set up SSL. Of course if you need to protect the confidentiality of the data then you need SSL, but if you just want to authenticate requests without sending credentials in the clear AuthHMAC is a good choice.
+
+== How to use it?
+
+The simplest way to use AuthHMAC is with the AuthHMAC.sign! and AuthHMAC#authenticate? methods.
+
+AuthHMAC.sign! takes a HTTP request object, an access id and a secret key and signs the request with the access_id and secret key.  
+
+* The HTTP request object can be a Net::HTTP::HTTPRequest object, a CGI::Request object or a Webrick HTTP request object.  AuthHMAC will do its best to figure out which type it is an handle it accordingly. 
+* The access_id is used to identify the secret key that was used to sign the request. Think of it as like a user name, it allows you to hand out different keys to different clients and authenticate each of them individually. The access_id is sent in the clear so you should avoid making it an important string.
+* The secret key is the shared secret between the client and the server.  You should make this sufficiently random so that is can't be guessed or exposed to dictionary attacks. The follow code will give you a pretty good secret key:
+
+	random = File.read('/dev/random', 512)
+	secret_key = Base64.encode64(Digest::SHA2.new(512).digest(random))
+	
+On the server side you can then authenticate these requests using the AuthHMAC.authenticated? method. This takes the same arguments as the sign! method but returns true if the request has been signed with the access id and secret	or false if it hasn't.
+
+If you have more than one set of credentials you might find it useful to create an instance of the AuthHMAC class, passing your credentials as a Hash of access id => secret keys, like so:
+
+	@authhmac = AuthHMAC.new('access_id1' => 'secret1', 'access_id2' => 'secret2')
+	
+You can then use the instance methods of the @authhmac object to sign and authenticate requests, for example:
+
+	@authhmac.sign!(request, "access_id1")
+	
+will sign +request+ with "access_id1" and it's corresponding secret key.  Similarly authentication is done like so:
+
+  @authhmac.authenticated?(request)
+
+which will return true if the request has been signed with one of the access id and secret key pairs provided in the constructor.
+
+=== Rails Integration
+
+AuthHMAC supports authentication within Rails controllers and signing of requests generated by Active Resource. See AuthHMAC::Rails::ControllerFilter::ClassMethods and AuthHMAC::Rails::ActiveResourceExtension::BaseHmac::ClassMethods for details.
+
+== How does it work?
+
+When creating a signature for a HTTP request AuthHMAC first generates a canonical representation of the request. 
+
+This canonical string is created like so:
+
+  canonical_string = HTTP-Verb    + "\n" +
+                   Content-Type + "\n" +
+                   Content-MD5  + "\n" +
+                   Date         + "\n" +
+                   request-uri;
+
+Where Content-Type, Content-MD5 and Date are all taken from the headers of the request.  If Content-Type or Content-MD5 are not present, they are substituted with an empty string.  If Date is not present it is added to the request headers with the value +Time.now.httpdate+.  +request-uri+ is the path component of the request, without any query string, i.e. everything up to the ?.
+
+This string is then used with the secret to generate a SHA1 HMAC using the following:
+
+  OpenSSL::HMAC.digest(OpenSSL::Digest::Digest.new('sha1'), secret_key, canonical_string)
+
+The result is then Base64 encoded and added to the headers of the request as the +Authorization+ header in the format:
+
+  Authorization: AuthHMAC <access_id>:<base64 encoded hmac>
+
+When authenaticating a request, AuthHMAC looks for the Authorization header in the above format, parses out the components, regenerates a HMAC for the request, using the secret key identified by the access id and then compares the generated HMAC with the one provided by the client.  If they match the request is authenticated.
+
+Using these details it is possible to build code that will sign and authenticate AuthHMAC style requests in other languages.
+
+== INSTALL:
+
+* sudo gem install auth-hmac
+
+== Source Code
+
+The source repository is accessible via GitHub or Ruby Forge:
+
+  git clone git://github.com/seangeo/auth-hmac.git
+
+
+  git clone git://rubyforge.org/auth-hmac.git
+
+== Contact Information
+
+The project page is at http://rubyforge.org/projects/auth-hmac. Please file any bugs or feedback
+using the trackers and forums there.
+
+== Authors and Contributors
+
+rAtom was developed by Peerworks[http://peerworks.org] and written by Sean Geoghegan.
+
+== LICENSE:
+
+(The MIT License)
+
+Copyright (c) 2008 The Kaphan Foundation
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
+IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
+CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
+TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
+SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

data/Rakefile

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+require 'config/requirements'
+require 'config/hoe' # setup Hoe + all gem configuration
+
+Dir['tasks/**/*.rake'].each { |rake| load rake }

data/config/hoe.rb

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+require 'auth-hmac/version'
+
+AUTHOR = 'Sean Geoghegan'  # can also be an array of Authors
+EMAIL = "seangeo@gmail.com"
+DESCRIPTION = "A gem providing HMAC based authentication for HTTP"
+GEM_NAME = 'auth-hmac' # what ppl will type to install your gem
+RUBYFORGE_PROJECT = 'auth-hmac' # The unix name for your project
+HOMEPATH = "http://#{RUBYFORGE_PROJECT}.rubyforge.org"
+DOWNLOAD_PATH = "http://rubyforge.org/projects/#{RUBYFORGE_PROJECT}"
+EXTRA_DEPENDENCIES = [
+#  ['activesupport', '>= 1.3.1']
+]    # An array of rubygem dependencies [name, version]
+
+@config_file = "~/.rubyforge/user-config.yml"
+@config = nil
+RUBYFORGE_USERNAME = "unknown"
+def rubyforge_username
+  unless @config
+    begin
+      @config = YAML.load(File.read(File.expand_path(@config_file)))
+    rescue
+      puts <<-EOS
+ERROR: No rubyforge config file found: #{@config_file}
+Run 'rubyforge setup' to prepare your env for access to Rubyforge
+ - See http://newgem.rubyforge.org/rubyforge.html for more details
+      EOS
+      exit
+    end
+  end
+  RUBYFORGE_USERNAME.replace @config["username"]
+end
+
+
+REV = nil
+# UNCOMMENT IF REQUIRED:
+# REV = YAML.load(`svn info`)['Revision']
+VERS = AuthHMAC::VERSION::STRING + (REV ? ".#{REV}" : "")
+RDOC_OPTS = ['--quiet', '--title', 'auth-hmac documentation',
+    "--opname", "index.html",
+    "--line-numbers",
+    "--main", "README",
+    "--inline-source"]
+
+class Hoe
+  def extra_deps
+    @extra_deps.reject! { |x| Array(x).first == 'hoe' }
+    @extra_deps
+  end
+end
+
+# Generate all the Rake tasks
+# Run 'rake -T' to see list of generated tasks (from gem root directory)
+$hoe = Hoe.new(GEM_NAME, VERS) do |p|
+  p.developer(AUTHOR, EMAIL)
+  p.description = DESCRIPTION
+  p.summary = DESCRIPTION
+  p.url = HOMEPATH
+  p.rubyforge_name = RUBYFORGE_PROJECT if RUBYFORGE_PROJECT
+  p.test_globs = ["test/**/test_*.rb"]
+  p.clean_globs |= ['**/.*.sw?', '*.gem', '.config', '**/.DS_Store']  #An array of file patterns to delete on clean.
+
+  # == Optional
+  p.changes = p.paragraphs_of("History.txt", 0..1).join("\n\n")
+  #p.extra_deps = EXTRA_DEPENDENCIES
+
+    #p.spec_extras = {}    # A hash of extra values to set in the gemspec.
+  end
+
+CHANGES = $hoe.paragraphs_of('History.txt', 0..1).join("\\n\\n")
+PATH    = (RUBYFORGE_PROJECT == GEM_NAME) ? RUBYFORGE_PROJECT : "#{RUBYFORGE_PROJECT}/#{GEM_NAME}"
+$hoe.remote_rdoc_dir = File.join(PATH.gsub(/^#{RUBYFORGE_PROJECT}\/?/,''))
+$hoe.rsync_args = '-av --delete --ignore-errors'
+$hoe.spec.post_install_message = File.open(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../PostInstall.txt").read rescue ""

data/config/requirements.rb

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+require 'fileutils'
+include FileUtils
+
+require 'rubygems'
+%w[rake hoe newgem rubigen].each do |req_gem|
+  begin
+    require req_gem
+  rescue LoadError
+    puts "This Rakefile requires the '#{req_gem}' RubyGem."
+    puts "Installation: gem install #{req_gem} -y"
+    exit
+  end
+end
+
+$:.unshift(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), %w[.. lib]))

data/lib/auth-hmac.rb

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+# Copyright (c) 2008 The Kaphan Foundation
+#
+# See License.txt for licensing information.
+#
+
+$:.unshift(File.dirname(__FILE__)) unless
+  $:.include?(File.dirname(__FILE__)) || $:.include?(File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__)))
+
+require 'openssl'
+require 'base64'
+
+# This module provides a HMAC Authentication method for HTTP requests. It should work with
+# net/http request classes and CGIRequest classes and hence Rails.
+#
+# It is loosely based on the Amazon Web Services Authentication mechanism but
+# generalized to be useful to any application that requires HMAC based authentication.
+# As a result of the generalization, it won't work with AWS because it doesn't support
+# the Amazon extension headers.
+#
+# === References
+# Cryptographic Hash functions:: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function
+# SHA-1 Hash function::          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-1
+# HMAC algorithm::               http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAC
+# RFC 2104::                     http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2104
+#
+class AuthHMAC
+  module Headers # :nodoc:
+    # Gets the headers for a request.
+    #
+    # Attempts to deal with known HTTP header representations in Ruby.
+    # Currently handles net/http and Rails.
+    #
+    def headers(request)
+      if request.respond_to?(:[])
+        request
+      elsif request.respond_to?(:headers)
+        request.headers
+      else
+        raise ArgumentError, "Don't know how to get the headers from #{request.inspect}"
+      end
+    end
+    
+    def find_header(keys, headers)
+      keys.map do |key|
+        headers[key]
+      end.compact.first
+    end
+  end
+  
+  include Headers
+ 
+  # Build a Canonical String for a HTTP request.
+  #
+  # A Canonical String has the following format:
+  #
+  # CanonicalString = HTTP-Verb    + "\n" +
+  #                   Content-Type + "\n" +
+  #                   Content-MD5  + "\n" +
+  #                   Date         + "\n" +
+  #                   request-uri;
+  #
+  #
+  # If the Date header doesn't exist, one will be generated since
+  # Net/HTTP will generate one if it doesn't exist and it will be
+  # used on the server side to do authentication.
+  #
+  class CanonicalString < String # :nodoc:
+    include Headers
+    
+    def initialize(request)
+      self << request_method(request) + "\n"
+      self << header_values(headers(request)) + "\n"
+      self << request_path(request)
+    end
+    
+    private
+      def request_method(request)
+        if request.respond_to?(:request_method) && request.request_method.is_a?(String)
+          request.request_method
+        elsif request.respond_to?(:method) && request.method.is_a?(String)
+          request.method
+        elsif request.respond_to?(:env) && request.env
+          request.env['REQUEST_METHOD']
+        else
+          raise ArgumentError, "Don't know how to get the request method from #{request.inspect}"
+        end
+      end
+      
+      def header_values(headers)
+        [ content_type(headers),
+          content_md5(headers),
+          (date(headers) or headers['Date'] = Time.now.utc.httpdate)
+        ].join("\n")
+      end
+     
+      def content_type(headers)
+        find_header(%w(CONTENT-TYPE CONTENT_TYPE HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE), headers)
+      end
+      
+      def date(headers)
+        find_header(%w(DATE HTTP_DATE), headers)
+      end
+      
+      def content_md5(headers)
+        find_header(%w(CONTENT-MD5 CONTENT_MD5), headers)
+      end
+      
+      def request_path(request)
+        # Try unparsed_uri in case it is a Webrick request
+        path = if request.respond_to?(:unparsed_uri)
+          request.unparsed_uri
+        else
+          request.path
+        end
+        
+        path[/^[^?]*/]
+      end
+  end
+   
+#  @@default_signature_method = lambda { |r| CanonicalString.new(r) }
+  @@default_signature_class = CanonicalString
+
+  # Create an AuthHMAC instance using the given credential store
+  #
+  # Credential Store:
+  # * Credential store must respond to the [] method and return a secret for access key id
+  # 
+  # Options:
+  # Override default options
+  # *  <tt>:service_id</tt> - Service ID used in the AUTHORIZATION header string. Default is AuthHMAC.
+  # *  <tt>:signature_method</tt> - Proc object that takes request and produces the signature string
+  #                                 used for authentication. Default is CanonicalString.
+  # Examples:
+  #   my_hmac = AuthHMAC.new('access_id1' => 'secret1', 'access_id2' => 'secret2')
+  #
+  #   cred_store = { 'access_id1' => 'secret1', 'access_id2' => 'secret2' }
+  #   options = { :service_id => 'MyApp', :signature_method => lambda { |r| MyRequestString.new(r) } }
+  #   my_hmac = AuthHMAC.new(cred_store, options)
+  #   
+  def initialize(credential_store, options = nil)
+    @credential_store = credential_store
+
+    # Defaults
+    @service_id = self.class.name
+    @signature_class = @@default_signature_class
+    #@signature_method = @@default_signature_method
+
+    unless options.nil?
+      @service_id = options[:service_id] if options.key?(:service_id)
+      @signature_class = options[:signature] if options.key?(:signature) && options[:signature].is_a?(Class)
+    end
+    
+    @signature_method = lambda { |r| @signature_class.send(:new, r) }
+  end
+
+  # Generates canonical signing string for given request
+  #
+  # Supports same options as AuthHMAC.initialize for overriding service_id and
+  # signature method.
+  # 
+  def AuthHMAC.canonical_string(request, options = nil)
+    self.new(nil, options).canonical_string(request)
+  end
+
+  # Generates signature string for a given secret
+  #
+  # Supports same options as AuthHMAC.initialize for overriding service_id and
+  # signature method.
+  # 
+  def AuthHMAC.signature(request, secret, options = nil)
+    self.new(nil, options).signature(request, secret)
+  end
+
+  # Signs a request using a given access key id and secret.
+  #
+  # Supports same options as AuthHMAC.initialize for overriding service_id and
+  # signature method.
+  # 
+  def AuthHMAC.sign!(request, access_key_id, secret, options = nil)
+    credentials = { access_key_id => secret }
+    self.new(credentials, options).sign!(request, access_key_id)
+  end
+  
+  # Authenticates a request using HMAC
+  #
+  # Supports same options as AuthHMAC.initialize for overriding service_id and
+  # signature method.
+  # 
+  def AuthHMAC.authenticated?(request, access_key_id, secret, options)
+    credentials = { access_key_id => secret }
+    self.new(credentials, options).authenticated?(request)
+  end
+  
+  # Signs a request using the access_key_id and the secret associated with that id
+  # in the credential store.
+  #
+  # Signing a requests adds an Authorization header to the request in the format:
+  #
+  #  <service_id> <access_key_id>:<signature>
+  #
+  # where <signature> is the Base64 encoded HMAC-SHA1 of the CanonicalString and the secret.
+  #
+  def sign!(request, access_key_id)
+    secret = @credential_store[access_key_id]
+    raise ArgumentError, "No secret found for key id '#{access_key_id}'" if secret.nil?
+    request['Authorization'] = authorization(request, access_key_id, secret)
+  end
+  
+  # Authenticates a request using HMAC
+  #
+  # Returns true if the request has an AuthHMAC Authorization header and
+  # the access id and HMAC match an id and HMAC produced for the secret
+  # in the credential store. Otherwise returns false.
+  #
+  def authenticated?(request)
+    rx = Regexp.new("#{@service_id} ([^:]+):(.+)$")
+    if md = rx.match(authorization_header(request))
+      access_key_id = md[1]
+      hmac = md[2]
+      secret = @credential_store[access_key_id]
+      !secret.nil? && hmac == signature(request, secret)
+    else
+      false
+    end
+  end
+
+  def signature(request, secret)
+    digest = OpenSSL::Digest::Digest.new('sha1')
+    Base64.encode64(OpenSSL::HMAC.digest(digest, secret, canonical_string(request))).strip
+  end
+
+  def canonical_string(request)
+    @signature_method.call(request)
+  end
+  
+  def authorization_header(request)
+    find_header(%w(Authorization HTTP_AUTHORIZATION), headers(request))
+  end
+
+  def authorization(request, access_key_id, secret)
+    "#{@service_id} #{access_key_id}:#{signature(request, secret)}"      
+  end
+  
+  # Integration with Rails
+  #
+  class Rails # :nodoc:
+    module ControllerFilter # :nodoc:
+      module ClassMethods
+        # Call within a Rails Controller to initialize HMAC authentication for the controller.
+        #
+        # * +credentials+ must be a hash that indexes secrets by their access key id.
+        # * +options+ supports the following arguments:
+        #   * +failure_message+: The text to use when authentication fails.
+        #   * +only+: A list off actions to protect.
+        #   * +except+: A list of actions to not protect.
+        #   * +hmac+: Options for HMAC creation. See AuthHMAC#initialize for options.
+        #
+        def with_auth_hmac(credentials, options = {})
+          unless credentials.nil?
+            self.credentials = credentials
+            self.authhmac_failure_message = (options.delete(:failure_message) or "HMAC Authentication failed")
+            self.authhmac = AuthHMAC.new(self.credentials, options.delete(:hmac))
+            before_filter(:hmac_login_required, options)
+          else
+            $stderr.puts("with_auth_hmac called with nil credentials - authentication will be skipped")
+          end
+        end
+      end
+      
+      module InstanceMethods # :nodoc:
+        def hmac_login_required
+          unless hmac_authenticated?
+            response.headers['WWW-Authenticate'] = 'AuthHMAC'
+            render :text => self.class.authhmac_failure_message, :status => :unauthorized
+          end
+        end
+        
+        def hmac_authenticated?
+          self.class.authhmac.nil? ? true : self.class.authhmac.authenticated?(request)
+        end
+      end
+      
+      unless defined?(ActionController)
+        begin
+          require 'rubygems'
+          gem 'actionpack'
+          gem 'activesupport'
+          require 'action_controller'
+          require 'active_support'
+        rescue
+          nil
+        end
+      end
+      
+      if defined?(ActionController::Base)        
+        ActionController::Base.class_eval do
+          class_inheritable_accessor :authhmac
+          class_inheritable_accessor :credentials
+          class_inheritable_accessor :authhmac_failure_message
+        end
+        
+        ActionController::Base.send(:include, ControllerFilter::InstanceMethods)
+        ActionController::Base.extend(ControllerFilter::ClassMethods)
+      end
+    end
+    
+    module ActiveResourceExtension  # :nodoc:
+      module BaseHmac # :nodoc:
+        def self.included(base)
+          base.extend(ClassMethods)
+          
+          base.class_inheritable_accessor :hmac_access_id
+          base.class_inheritable_accessor :hmac_secret
+          base.class_inheritable_accessor :use_hmac
+          base.class_inheritable_accessor :hmac_options
+        end
+        
+        module ClassMethods
+          # Call with an Active Resource class definition to sign
+          # all HTTP requests sent by that class with the provided
+          # credentials.
+          #
+          # Can be called with either a hash or two separate parameters
+          # like so:
+          #
+          #   class MyResource < ActiveResource::Base
+          #     with_auth_hmac("my_access_id", "my_secret")
+          #   end
+          # 
+          # or
+          #
+          #   class MyOtherResource < ActiveResource::Base
+          #     with_auth_hmac("my_access_id" => "my_secret")
+          #   end
+          #
+          #
+          # This has only been tested with Rails 2.1 and since it is virtually a monkey
+          # patch of the internals of ActiveResource it might not work with past or
+          # future versions.
+          #
+          def with_auth_hmac(access_id, secret = nil, options = nil)
+            if access_id.is_a?(Hash)
+              self.hmac_access_id = access_id.keys.first
+              self.hmac_secret = access_id[self.hmac_access_id]
+            else
+              self.hmac_access_id = access_id
+              self.hmac_secret = secret
+            end
+            self.use_hmac = true
+            self.hmac_options = options
+            
+            class << self
+              alias_method_chain :connection, :hmac
+            end
+          end
+          
+          def connection_with_hmac(refresh = false) # :nodoc: 
+            c = connection_without_hmac(refresh)
+            c.hmac_access_id = self.hmac_access_id
+            c.hmac_secret = self.hmac_secret
+            c.use_hmac = self.use_hmac
+            c.hmac_options = self.hmac_options
+            c
+          end          
+        end
+        
+        module InstanceMethods # :nodoc:
+        end
+      end
+      
+      module Connection # :nodoc:
+        def self.included(base)
+          base.send :alias_method_chain, :request, :hmac
+          base.class_eval do
+            attr_accessor :hmac_secret, :hmac_access_id, :use_hmac, :hmac_options
+          end
+        end
+
+        def request_with_hmac(method, path, *arguments)
+          if use_hmac && hmac_access_id && hmac_secret
+            arguments.last['Date'] = Time.now.httpdate if arguments.last['Date'].nil?
+            temp = "Net::HTTP::#{method.to_s.capitalize}".constantize.new(path, arguments.last)
+            AuthHMAC.sign!(temp, hmac_access_id, hmac_secret, hmac_options)
+            arguments.last['Authorization'] = temp['Authorization']
+          end
+          
+          request_without_hmac(method, path, *arguments)
+        end
+      end
+            
+      unless defined?(ActiveResource)
+        begin
+          require 'rubygems'
+          gem 'activeresource'
+          require 'activeresource'
+        rescue
+          nil
+        end
+      end
+      
+      if defined?(ActiveResource)
+        ActiveResource::Base.send(:include, BaseHmac)        
+        ActiveResource::Connection.send(:include, Connection)
+      end     
+    end
+  end
+end