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Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] http: handle proxy proactive authentication

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 12, 2012, 22:25 UTC
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Nelson Benitez Leon <nelsonjesus.benitez@seap.minhap.es> writes:
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> If http_proactive_auth flag is set and there is a username
> but no password in the proxy url, then interactively ask for
> the password.
>
> This makes possible to not have the password written down in
> http_proxy env var or in http.proxy config option.
>
> Also take care that CURLOPT_PROXY don't include username or
> password, as we now set them in the new set_proxy_auth() function
> where we use their specific cURL options.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nelson Benitez Leon <nbenitezl@gmail.com>
> ---
>  http.c |   27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Just a minor style nit first so that we do not have to go ping-pong on the trivialities.

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> @@ -303,8 +318,18 @@ static CURL *get_curl_handle(void)
>  		}
>  	}
>  	if (curl_http_proxy) {
> -		curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_PROXY, curl_http_proxy);
> +		if (!proxy_auth.host) { // check to parse only once
No C99 // comments.
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> +			credential_from_url(&proxy_auth, curl_http_proxy);
> +		}
> +		if (http_proactive_auth && proxy_auth.username && !proxy_auth.password) {
> +			/* proxy string has username but no password, ask for password */
> +			credential_fill(&proxy_auth);
> +		}

No {} around single statement block (this comment applies also to the previous "if (!proxy_auth.host)").

> +		char proxyhost[100];
No decl-after-statement.
> +		snprintf(proxyhost, 100, "%s://%s", proxy_auth.protocol, proxy_auth.host);

Wouldn't it be far more pleasant if you used strbuf_addf() for things like this? That way you do not have to wonder if a 100-byte buffer is too small.

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> +		curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_PROXY, proxyhost);
>  		curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
> +		set_proxy_auth(result);
>  	}
>  
>  	return result;
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  1. 2/5 http: handle proxy proactive authenticationNelson Benitez Leon, Mar 12, 2012
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