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Re: [RFC PATCH] gitweb: Support filtering projects by .htaccess files.

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 3, 2008, 18:18 UTC
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Francis Galiegue <fg@one2team.net> writes:
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> Le Monday 03 November 2008 18:26:44 Alexander Gavrilov, vous avez écrit :
>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Francis Galiegue <fg@one2team.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> It just seems to me that this is emulating functionality that
>>> multiple Web servers already provide...
>>>
>>> What's more, knowledge about these Web servers are _much_ more
>>> widespread than knowledge about gitweb.
>>>
>>> Why reinvent the wheel?
[...]
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>> If you are speaking of web servers as in 'Apache', then how would it
>> know which files are going to be accessed when it executes
>> cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=very/private/project.git to check permissions?
>> 
> 
> Well, as far as Apache is concerned, it can do:
> 
> * basic .htpasswd authentication,
> * LDAP,
> * PAM,
> * SSL certificate check (via mod_ssl),
> * probably others.
> 
> Plenty of possibilities.
[...]

Well, the question is if Apache (and other web servers used with gitweb) can do authentication based on path_info or on query-string. Because it is encoded in gitweb (via $projectroot) where to find git repositories...

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Jakub Narebski
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  1. gitweb: Support filtering projects by .htaccess files.Alexander Gavrilov, Nov 3, 2008
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  3. Alexander GavrilovNov 3, 2008
  4. Francis GaliegueNov 3, 2008
  5. Jakub NarebskiNov 3, 2008
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