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Re: [PATCH] http: match headers case-insensitively when redacting

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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date
Sep 21, 2021, 19:06 UTC
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On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 2:41 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> When HTTP/2 is in use, we fail to correctly redact "Authorization" (and
> other) headers in our GIT_TRACE_CURL output.
>
> We get the headers in our CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION callback, curl_trace().
> It passes them along to curl_dump_header(), which in turn checks
> redact_sensitive_header(). We see the headers as a text buffer like:
>
>   Host: ...
>   Authorization: Basic ...
>
> After breaking it into lines, we match each header using skip_prefix().
> This is case-insensitive, even though HTTP headers are case-insensitive.
> This has worked reliably in the past because these headers are generated
> by curl itself, which is predictable in what it sends.
Did you mean "This is case-sensitive..."?
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> But when HTTP/2 is in use, instead we get a lower-case "authorization:"
> header, and we fail to match it. The fix is simple: we should match with
> skip_iprefix().
> [...]
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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  1. http: match headers case-insensitively when redactingJeff King, Sep 21, 2021
  2. Jeff KingSep 21, 2021
  3. Carlo ArenasSep 21, 2021
  4. Jeff KingSep 21, 2021
  5. Daniel StenbergSep 21, 2021
  6. Jeff KingSep 22, 2021
  7. Eric SunshineSep 21, 2021
  8. Jeff KingSep 21, 2021
  9. Junio C HamanoSep 22, 2021
  10. Taylor BlauSep 21, 2021
  11. Jeff KingSep 22, 2021
  12. Bagas SanjayaSep 22, 2021
  13. Jeff KingSep 22, 2021
  14. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonSep 23, 2021
  15. Jeff KingSep 23, 2021
  16. Junio C HamanoSep 22, 2021
  17. Jeff KingSep 22, 2021
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  19. Jeff KingSep 22, 2021
  20. Junio C HamanoSep 22, 2021
  21. http: match headers case-insensitively when redactingJeff King, Sep 22, 2021
  22. Jeff KingSep 22, 2021

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