Allowing :controller and :action values to be specified via the path
in config/routes.rb has been an underlying cause of a number of issues
in Rails that have resulted in security releases. In light of this it's
better that controllers and actions are explicitly whitelisted rather
than trying to blacklist or sanitize 'bad' values.
Rails 4.x and earlier didn't support `Mime::Type[:FOO]`, so libraries
that support multiple Rails versions would've had to feature-detect
whether to use `Mime::Type[:FOO]` or `Mime::FOO`.
`Mime[:foo]` has been around for ages to look up registered MIME types
by symbol / extension, though, so libraries and plugins can safely
switch to that without breaking backward- or forward-compatibility.
Note: `Mime::ALL` isn't a real MIME type and isn't registered for lookup
by type or extension, so it's not available as `Mime[:all]`. We use it
internally as a wildcard for `respond_to` negotiation. If you use this
internal constant, continue to reference it with `Mime::ALL`.
Ref. efc6dd550e
Non-kwargs requests are deprecated now.
Guides are updated as well.
`post url, nil, nil, { a: 'b' }` doesn't make sense.
`post url, params: { y: x }, session: { a: 'b' }` would be an explicit way to do the same
In the current router DSL, using the +match+ DSL
method will match all verbs for the path to the
specified endpoint.
In the vast majority of cases, people are
currently using +match+ when they actually mean
+get+. This introduces security implications.
This commit disallows calling +match+ without
an HTTP verb constraint by default. To explicitly
match all verbs, this commit also adds a
:via => :all option to +match+.
Closes#5964
