Re: Support various HTTP authentication methods

From: Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 4, 2009, 18:51 UTC
Message-ID: <20090204185109.GA31250@klangraum.plasmasturm.org>
In-Reply-To: <1233556274-1354-4-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com>

* Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> [2009-02-02 07:35]:

> This patch allows users to specify the authentication method if
> supported by CURL, adding a couple of new settings and
> environment variables listed below (the names within the
> parentheses indicate the environment variables.)

I tried this patch against my Apache WebDAV server for which I use Digest auth, but it didn’t get very far:

    Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/xxxxxxx/.git/
    error: Couldn't get http://xxx:xxx@example.org:8086/xxxxxxx.git/HEAD for HEAD
    The requested URL returned error: 400
    Getting alternates list for http://xxx:xxx@example.org:8086/xxxxxxx.git
    Getting pack list for http://xxx:xxx@example.org:8086/xxxxxxx.git
    Getting index for pack a9bed5817173acdf0a2dc86ddaf36c4f0c7f9ea3
    error: Unable to get pack index http://xxx:xxx@example.org:8086/xxxxxxx.git/objects/pack/pack-a9bed5817173acdf0a2dc86ddaf36c4f0c7f9ea3.idx
    The requested URL returned error: 400
    error: Unable to find 7ec6910c4d1733d575f955063fd52b2b0ae7ca5b under http://xxx:xxx@example.org:8086/xxxxxxx.git
    Cannot obtain needed object 7ec6910c4d1733d575f955063fd52b2b0ae7ca5b
    fatal: Fetch failed.

The server error log contained the following lines:

    [Wed Feb 04 19:49:14 2009] [error] [client 192.168.1.1] Digest: uri mismatch - </xxxxxxx.git/info/refs> does not match request-uri </xxxxxxx.git/HEAD>
    [Wed Feb 04 19:49:15 2009] [error] [client 192.168.1.1] Digest: uri mismatch - </xxxxxxx.git/objects/info/packs> does not match request-uri </xxxxxxx.git/objects/pack/pack-a9bed5817173acdf0a2dc86ddaf36c4f0c7f9ea3.idx>

Does that have to do with something being missing in the Digest support or is that operator error? If the latter, what might be the culprit – how do I diagnose it?

Regards,

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Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>