Re: html page display via cgit

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 1, 2010, 09:46 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTik-02dJZF_0m=xccg4N5Mdaj=b2JzZaMKp=vuww@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinJx0ZKjCtpq9k6nwigodnu42EvqchpgQtwGp5S@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 09:32, Shivdas Gujare <shivdas.tech@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I hope, this is the right mailing list for cgit as well.
> I am trying to add some "html logs" inside cgit, but I can't open
> these logs via cgit inside firefox, i.e. cgit open every files in
> "plain" format,
> would like to know if it is possible to open "html" pages inside cgit
> so that if I click on html page added into git, it opens in html and
> not in plain format.
>
> for example:
> if I click on "download.html" from
> "http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~lb/mesa/tree/docs" it shows a raw file
> as "http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~lb/mesa/tree/docs/download.html"
> and if I click on "plain" it opens in firefox like
> "http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~lb/mesa/plain/docs/download.html"
> but here I am trying to open this "download.html" inside cgit so that
> I can view it like html web page and not as "plain" text file.
>
> Thanks for any help or pointers.

I don't know, but that's probably deliberate. You're viewing a /plain/ link, which should be the equivalent of "git show".

There's also XSS security implications to serving things as text/html on a shared hosting site if the main site serves cookies or otherwise has user logins.