From: Jakub Narebski Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:18:56 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] gitweb: Support filtering projects by .htaccess files. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200811031845.46451.fg@one2team.net> Francis Galiegue writes: > Le Monday 03 November 2008 18:26:44 Alexander Gavrilov, vous avez écrit : >> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Francis Galiegue 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? [...] >> 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... -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git