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Re: [PATCH] Fix problem with authentification on http repository.

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Sep 29, 2007, 23:40 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0709300039430.28395@racer.site>
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Hi,
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> jean.guyader@linkea.org writes:
> 
> > From: Jean Guyader <jean.guyader@gmail.com>
> >
> > Curl uses the option -u user:passwd and not the user:password
> > given in the url.
> > The solution was to extract user:password from the url and set
> > the option.
> >
> > Here the regex used :
> >         sed -re 's-.*http://([^:]*):([^@]+)@.*-\1:\2-g'
> 
> This is more like "allowing embedded authentication credentials
> in URL for http transport".
> 
> We never supported URLs with embedded credentials (see
> Documentation/urls.txt), partly because nobody asked for it, but
> more importantly because giving -n to curl to have it read from
> user's .netrc is generally much more preferred approach.

To elaborate on that: if you fetch from somewhere, your url, username and password can be read from the output of "ps ax | grep http" very easily.

Ciao, Dscho

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  2. Johannes SchindelinSep 29, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoSep 29, 2007
  4. Johannes SchindelinSep 29, 2007
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  10. Daniel StenbergJul 9, 2008
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