I have a Ruby on Rails 3 application which makes heavy use of JQGrid (for which, thanks!).

I'm using ruby-openid to do authentication with Google, and used Seth Ladd's nice recipe to get that working.

Which it does — for page views and POSTS from web forms.

However, whenever JQGrid does a POST to update data on the server, two things happen:

1. Even if the user's browser is already authenticated via logging in to Google, the POST appears to the server as if it were coming from an unauthenticated one, and gets redirected to the OpenID authentication dance. That wouldn't be a showstopper except that