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Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] http: handle proxy proactive authentication

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:53:34

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:
Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
I haven't formed an opinion on what the proper solution should be, but
either the credential_from_url() function needs to be updated to accept
the scp style [user@]<host>:<port> argument, or this specific caller
should take the responsibility to do special case the syntax.
Well, calling the above "scp" style is a mistake (it is not scp style at
all), but the patch to teach the credentail_from_url() to handle the proxy
specification may look like this:
Jeff, do you have an opinion on this?  I briefly wondered if we also want
to teach the traditional [user@]host:/path/to/repo to this function (it is
not a URL in RFC1738 sense, but it is in the remote.$name.url sense), but
because SSH does its own thing interacting with agents, perhaps it may not
help to teach our credential layer to store and supply cached passphrases
(or passwords, if the authentication is done by merely sending password
over the encrypted channel).

A safer approach might be to keep externally visible API to this function
as before, but add another function only for the use of http_proxy and
friends (whose kosher format is "host:address" without the "<scheme>://"
part), and call it from the codepath broken by the patch.
quoted hunk
 credential.c |   10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/credential.c b/credential.c
index 62d1c56..482ae88 100644
--- a/credential.c
+++ b/credential.c
@@ -324,11 +324,13 @@ void credential_from_url(struct credential *c, const char *url)
 	 *   (1) proto://<host>/...
 	 *   (2) proto://<user>@<host>/...
 	 *   (3) proto://<user>:<pass>@<host>/...
+	 * or "proto://"-less variants of the above for *_proxy variables.
 	 */
 	proto_end = strstr(url, "://");
-	if (!proto_end)
-		return;
-	cp = proto_end + 3;
+	if (proto_end)
+		cp = proto_end + 3;
+	else
+		cp = url;
 	at = strchr(cp, '@');
 	colon = strchr(cp, ':');
 	slash = strchrnul(cp, '/');
@@ -348,7 +350,7 @@ void credential_from_url(struct credential *c, const char *url)
 		host = at + 1;
 	}
 
-	if (proto_end - url > 0)
+	if (proto_end && proto_end != url)
 		c->protocol = xmemdupz(url, proto_end - url);
 	if (slash - host > 0)
 		c->host = url_decode_mem(host, slash - host);
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