Re: git-http-backend and Authenticated Pushes

From: Ryan Phillips <ryan@trolocsis.com>
Date: Mar 10, 2010, 02:13 UTC
Message-ID: <46a47f951003091813p768fdb58v454f2553a8b6ed8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100309192726.GA12461@spearce.org>

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:

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> Ryan Phillips <ryan@trolocsis.com> wrote:
>> I'm trying to follow the git-http-backend man page on setting up
>> authenticated pushes to my apache server. Pulls work fine, and fully
>> authenticated pushes work fine. However, when I try and setup
>> anonymous pulls and authenticated pushes the push fails.
>>
>> I believe the culprit is this 403 error:
>>
>> 192.168.1.1 - - [09/Mar/2010:09:01:43 -0800] "GET
>> /git/test.git/info/refs?service=git-receive-pack HTTP/1.1" 403 - "-"
>> "git/1.7.0.2.dirty"
>
> Ugh.  Looks like I didn't design this thing right.
>
> The backend wants you to be authenticated before it will service
> the git-receive-pack advertisement.  Even though its the same
> data as the git-upload-pack advertisement (but slightly different
> capability strings).
>
> Maybe we should consider doing something like this patch so that
> the advertisement under info/refs?service=git-receive-pack can be
> sent without needing authentication.  My only hesitation is this
> makes it harder for the client to setup the authentication before
> it needs to transmit the pack file, which may mean it needs to send
> the pack twice.
>

Thank you everyone for your response.

Shawn: That patch does fix the issue for now.

Regards, Ryan