API generates 'Consumer Key is missing' about wc-api-ruby HOT 7 CLOSED

Got this working on my fork by passing the consumer key and secret into the query string of the request. Going to write up a pull request for this as well.

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You can use ?consumer_key=user&consumer_secret=pass on the end of your URL.
But this is not work for API version 3.
This happens only on outdated servers.

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@claudiosmweb What is going to be the methodology in version 3? Currently the online documentation for v3 says that it works.

http://woothemes.github.io/woocommerce-rest-api-docs/#authentication

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@kbacha I'll remove it soon.

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@claudiosmweb Ok, I feel a little in the dark here. Would you be willing to provide me some more details on how auth will work going forward and how we can continue to support any backward compatibility for our customers?

Requiring a customer to upgrade your product so that they can use ours seems like pushing an undue burden onto application developers and your customers. If there are different means of auth based on different versions, then it stands to reason that the client gem that you put out needs to backward support them (especially if it continues to supports the older versions).

We, at Sellbrite, need to be able to support several different versions and I was hoping that the gem put out by woocommerce would provide the backward functionality to help us with a smooth development process and make our lives easier. If I need to hack the query params for every customer outside of the client gem, then my life is harder, not easier.

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Because v3 implement full basic authentication (conforms to the Basic auth spec).

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This issue is still going on a 2.5.1 woocommerce version on a client of mine. See the woocommerce documentation :

https://woothemes.github.io/woocommerce-rest-api-docs/?ruby#authentication

Occasionally some servers may not parse the Authorization header correctly (if you see a “Consumer key is missing” error when authenticating over SSL, you have a server issue). In this case, you may provide the consumer key/secret as query string parameters.

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