From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 06:30:22 GMT
Subject: Re: git smart-http do not authent to allow git ls-remote to be called anonymously
Message-ID: <20121014063022.GA14812@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAHtLG6T=hFsSy=ScRK2cYBoUcmAG_tsg12FiFMTvzpHGmPTzfg@mail.gmail.com>

[re-adding git@vger; please keep discussion on-list]

On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 01:29:13PM +0800, 乙酸鋰 wrote:

> Sorry, it does not serve the request. It returns http 401.
> But if I add the username and password as a part of the URL, it succeeds.

In that case, then you probably need to upgrade your client version of
git, as I mentioned here:

> >> Or is it that the server tells git that it needs authorization, but git
> >> does not prompt, and instead just fails with "Authentication failed". In
> >> that case, the issue is that you need a newer git client. Traditionally
> >> the client expected to handle authentication during the initial
> >> "info/refs" request. I added support for handling authentication during
> >> later requests in commit b81401c, which is in git v1.7.11.7 and
> >> v1.7.12.1.

-Peff