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Re: [PATCH 2/2] gitweb: support to globally enable/disable a snapshot format

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 6, 2011, 13:59 UTC
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Mark A Rada <marada@uwaterloo.ca> writes:
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> On 1-Aug-09, at 4:14 AM, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>> "J.H." <warthog19@eaglescrag.net> writes:
>>
>>> Well you can always call xz with -[1-9] to change the compression
>>> level (same as gzip and bzip2) though I think a full disabling would
>>> be 'more' preferable, though I'm not sure I like Jakub's suggestion
>>> of just deleting it after the fact, it would work.
>> [...]
>>
>> The problem is that 'keys %known_snapshot_formats' serves also as list
>> of allowed snapshot formats, if project specific override is enabled.
>> We can add another optional flag ('disabled' => 1) if you don't want
>> to delete from %known_snapshot_formats in $GITWEB_CONFIG, though I
>> don't know if it is worth it.  Anyway such mechanism can be added, and
>> IMHO should be added, in a separate commit.
> 
> Is this correct?
Thanks for doing it.
It is correct, although I had in mind slightly different solution
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> diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> index 3398163..0a9cec6 100755
> --- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> +++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> @@ -167,27 +167,31 @@ our %known_snapshot_formats = (
>   	'txz' => {
>   		'display' => 'tar.xz',
>   		'type' => 'application/x-xz',
>   		'suffix' => '.tar.xz',
>   		'format' => 'tar',
> -		'compressor' => ['xz']},
> +		'compressor' => ['xz'],
> +		'enabled' => 1},
I'd rather use here, taking for example 'txz' as "known but disabled"
  +		'compressor' => ['xz'],
  +		'disabled' => 1},
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>   	'zip' => {
>   		'display' => 'zip',
>   		'type' => 'application/x-zip',
>   		'suffix' => '.zip',
> 		'format' => 'zip'},
>   );

And then you would not need to modify the rest of snapshot formats, making use of the fact that $hash{'key'} is false-ish, if 'key' does not exist in hash.

Also, this should be documented at least in comments.
 
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>   # Aliases so we understand old gitweb.snapshot values in repository
> @@ -5171,6 +5175,8 @@ sub git_snapshot {
>   		die_error(400, "Unknown snapshot format");
>   	} elsif (!grep($_ eq $format, @snapshot_fmts)) {
>   		die_error(403, "Unsupported snapshot format");
> +	} elsif (!$known_snapshot_formats{$format}{'enabled'}) {
> +		die_error(403, "Snapshot format not allowed");
This would be modified then to read:
  +	} elsif ($known_snapshot_formats{$format}{'disabled'}) {
  +		die_error(403, "Snapshot format not allowed");

Also, we want not only protect againts *using* known but disabled format, but also do not display it as one of formats available, even if project specific override is supprted for snapshot, and projects list it in gitweb.snapshot:

@@ -509,7 +509,8 @@ sub filter_snapshot_fmts {
 		exists $known_snapshot_format_aliases{$_} ?
 		       $known_snapshot_format_aliases{$_} : $_} @fmts;
 	@fmts = grep {
-		exists $known_snapshot_formats{$_} } @fmts;
+		exists $known_snapshot_formats{$_} &&
+		!$known_snapshot_formats{$_}{'disabled'} } @fmts;
 }
 
 our $GITWEB_CONFIG = $ENV{'GITWEB_CONFIG'} || "++GITWEB_CONFIG++";
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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