Re: Why is my git-http-backend solution using WebDAV on push?

From: Luke Madhanga <lmadhanga@gmail.com>
Date: May 25, 2016, 21:54 UTC
Message-ID: <CABwKKP-rKSGzdk6E78BMRCVdumtVnj7tysv90c7RL8=059PxoA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CABwKKP89Ncht0MfB7X1x15a6PB-Nm68SDGEDvX1AnQdDucXQkA@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks for the response btw

On 25 May 2016 at 22:54, Luke Madhanga <lmadhanga@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hmmmm. Interesting.
>
> When you look at the PHP code, you'll see the following
>
>     $res = self::proc_open("{$gitcoredir}/git-http-backend", [],
> $gitdir, true, [...]);
>     ...
>     $resbits = explode("\n", $res);
>     foreach ($resbits as $index => $header) {
>         if ($header && strpos($header, ':') !== false) {
>             // Headers
>             header($header);
>             unset($resbits[$index]);
>         } else {
>             // First blank line is the space between the headers and
> the start of the response from Git
>             break;
>         }
>     }
>     echo ltrim(implode("\n", $resbits));
>     exit;
>
>
> Everything being returned is from a direct call to the git-http-backend.
>
> A manual CLI call to git-http-backend doesn't include
> 'application/x-git-receive-pack-advertisement'
>
> REQUEST_METHOD=GET GIT_PROJECT_ROOT=/path/to/core/
> PATH_INFO=/repo.git/info/refs /usr/lib/git-core/git-http-backend
>
> The above command outputs
>
> Expires: Fri, 01 Jan 1980 00:00:00 GMT
> Pragma: no-cache
> Cache-Control: no-cache, max-age=0, must-revalidate
> Content-Length: 118
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> f4648182f5f8eee082c37a83a0072cfc4210e5c5 refs/heads/master
> 8c4efcd77809bc9b94a59cf94653add8007c6b7d refs/heads/zztest

-- 
Yours,
Luke Madhanga