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Re: [RFC PATCH] gitweb: Support filtering projects by .htaccess files.

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FGFrancis Galiegue <fg@one2team.net>
Date
Nov 3, 2008, 18:44 UTC
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Le Monday 03 November 2008 19:18:56 Jakub Narebski, vous avez écrit :
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> > 
> > Well, as far as Apache is concerned, it can do:
> > 
> > * basic .htpasswd authentication,
> > * LDAP,
> > * PAM,
> > * SSL certificate check (via mod_ssl),
> > * probably others.
> > 
> > Plenty of possibilities.
> [...]
> 
> Well, the question is if Apache (and other web servers used with
> gitweb) can do authentication based on path_info or on query-string.
> Because it is encoded in gitweb (via $projectroot) where to find git
> repositories...
>

Can you expand on path_info and query-string? Keep in mind that Apache has mod_rewrite, which can rewrite URLs in any way before it gets actually sent to the underlying program (whether it be a CGI or anything else), even badly (or mischievously).

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  1. gitweb: Support filtering projects by .htaccess files.Alexander Gavrilov, Nov 3, 2008
  2. Francis GaliegueNov 3, 2008
  3. Alexander GavrilovNov 3, 2008
  4. Francis GaliegueNov 3, 2008
  5. Jakub NarebskiNov 3, 2008
  6. Francis GaliegueNov 3, 2008
  7. Jakub NarebskiNov 3, 2008
  8. Francis GaliegueNov 3, 2008
  9. Jakub NarebskiNov 4, 2008
  10. Francis GaliegueNov 4, 2008
  11. Jakub NarebskiNov 3, 2008
  12. Alexander GavrilovNov 5, 2008
  13. Jakub NarebskiNov 5, 2008
  14. Alexander GavrilovNov 6, 2008

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