Re: [PATCH v7 08/12] test-http-server: add simple authentication

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 26, 2023, 22:27 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqwn599bk7.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <Y9LvFMzriAWUsS58@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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>> I suspect this could all be done as a CGI wrapping git-http-backend. You
>> can influence the HTTP response code by sending:
> ...
> And here's a minimally worked-out example of that approach. It's on top
> of your patches so I could use your credential-helper infrastructure in
> the test, but the intent is that it would replace all of the test-tool
> server patches and be rolled into t5556 as appropriate.

Thanks for helping Matthew's topic move forward. I very much like seeing apache used for tests in this sample approach, like all the other http tests we do with apache, instead of a custom server that we need to ensure that it mimics the real-world use cases and we have to maintain.