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Re: Git over HTTP; have flexible SASL authentication

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 27, 2023, 17:06 UTC
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Rick van Rein <rick@openfortress.nl> writes:
> Git providers are inventing proprietary extensions to HTTP authentication
> for Git.  It seems smarter to use SASL for this purpose, possibly allowing
> the client a choice and authentication ringback to the client's own domain.

To adopt things like this, the work to extend how to make extensible what is on WWW-Authenticate in the thread that contains this recent message https://lore.kernel.org/git/Y9LvFMzriAWUsS58@coredump.intra.peff.net/ may be relevant, perhaps?
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  1. Rick van ReinJan 27, 2023
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 27, 2023
  3. Jeff KingFeb 1, 2023
  4. Matthew John CheethamFeb 1, 2023
  5. Rick van ReinFeb 4, 2023
  6. Junio C HamanoFeb 6, 2023

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