html page display via cgit

> I hope, this is the right mailing list for cgit as well.
> I am trying to add some "html logs" inside cgit, but I can't open
> these logs via cgit inside firefox, i.e. cgit open every files in
> "plain" format,
> would like to know if it is possible to open "html" pages inside cgit
> so that if I click on html page added into git, it opens in html and
> not in plain format.
>
> for example:
> if I click on "download.html" from
> "http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~lb/mesa/tree/docs" it shows a raw file
> as "http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~lb/mesa/tree/docs/download.html"
> and if I click on "plain" it opens in firefox like
> "http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~lb/mesa/plain/docs/download.html"
> but here I am trying to open this "download.html" inside cgit so that
> I can view it like html web page and not as "plain" text file.
>
> Thanks for any help or pointers.

> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 09:32, Shivdas Gujare  
> <shivdas.tech@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I hope, this is the right mailing list for cgit as well.
>> I am trying to add some "html logs" inside cgit, but I can't open
>> these logs via cgit inside firefox, i.e. cgit open every files in
>> "plain" format,
>> would like to know if it is possible to open "html" pages inside cgit
>> so that if I click on html page added into git, it opens in html and
>> not in plain format.
>>
>> for example:
>> if I click on "download.html" from
>> "http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~lb/mesa/tree/docs" it shows a raw file
>> as "http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~lb/mesa/tree/docs/download.html"
>> and if I click on "plain" it opens in firefox like
>> "http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~lb/mesa/plain/docs/download.html"
>> but here I am trying to open this "download.html" inside cgit so that
>> I can view it like html web page and not as "plain" text file.
>>
>> Thanks for any help or pointers.
>
> I don't know, but that's probably deliberate. You're viewing a /plain/
> link, which should be the equivalent of "git show".
>
> There's also XSS security implications to serving things as text/html
> on a shared hosting site if the main site serves cookies or otherwise
> has user logins.

> On Sep 1, 2010, at 2:46 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 09:32, Shivdas Gujare <shivdas.tech@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I hope, this is the right mailing list for cgit as well.
>>> I am trying to add some "html logs" inside cgit, but I can't open
>>> these logs via cgit inside firefox, i.e. cgit open every files in
>>> "plain" format,
>>> would like to know if it is possible to open "html" pages inside cgit
>>> so that if I click on html page added into git, it opens in html and
>>> not in plain format.
>>>
>>> for example:
>>> if I click on "download.html" from
>>> "http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~lb/mesa/tree/docs" it shows a raw file
>>> as "http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~lb/mesa/tree/docs/download.html"
>>> and if I click on "plain" it opens in firefox like
>>> "http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~lb/mesa/plain/docs/download.html"
>>> but here I am trying to open this "download.html" inside cgit so that
>>> I can view it like html web page and not as "plain" text file.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help or pointers.
>>
>> I don't know, but that's probably deliberate. You're viewing a /plain/
>> link, which should be the equivalent of "git show".
>>
>> There's also XSS security implications to serving things as text/html
>> on a shared hosting site if the main site serves cookies or otherwise
>> has user logins.
>
> One solution is parse the content server-side and re-render as sanitized
> HTML.  In addition to stripping out scripts and frames, this would avoid
> sending broken markup produced by someone else under your name, or serving
> up otherwise well-formed XHTML as text/html.

> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:00, Joshua Juran <jjuran@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sep 1, 2010, at 2:46 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 09:32, Shivdas Gujare  
>>> <shivdas.tech@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I hope, this is the right mailing list for cgit as well.
>>>> I am trying to add some "html logs" inside cgit, but I can't open
>>>> these logs via cgit inside firefox, i.e. cgit open every files in
>>>> "plain" format,
>>>> would like to know if it is possible to open "html" pages inside  
>>>> cgit
>>>> so that if I click on html page added into git, it opens in html  
>>>> and
>>>> not in plain format.
>>>>
>>>> for example:
>>>> if I click on "download.html" from
>>>> "http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~lb/mesa/tree/docs" it shows a raw  
>>>> file
>>>> as "http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~lb/mesa/tree/docs/download.html"
>>>> and if I click on "plain" it opens in firefox like
>>>> "http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~lb/mesa/plain/docs/download.html"
>>>> but here I am trying to open this "download.html" inside cgit so  
>>>> that
>>>> I can view it like html web page and not as "plain" text file.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any help or pointers.
>>>
>>> I don't know, but that's probably deliberate. You're viewing a / 
>>> plain/
>>> link, which should be the equivalent of "git show".
>>>
>>> There's also XSS security implications to serving things as text/ 
>>> html
>>> on a shared hosting site if the main site serves cookies or  
>>> otherwise
>>> has user logins.
>>
>> One solution is parse the content server-side and re-render as  
>> sanitized
>> HTML.  In addition to stripping out scripts and frames, this would  
>> avoid
>> sending broken markup produced by someone else under your name, or  
>> serving
>> up otherwise well-formed XHTML as text/html.
>
> Yes, but have you seen programs that try to secure arbitrary
> user-supplied HTML like this? It isn't pretty, and very hard to get
> right.

> Hi All,
> 
> I hope, this is the right mailing list for cgit as well.
> I am trying to add some "html logs" inside cgit, but I can't open
> these logs via cgit inside firefox, i.e. cgit open every files in
> "plain" format,
> would like to know if it is possible to open "html" pages inside cgit
> so that if I click on html page added into git, it opens in html and
> not in plain format.

> On 9/1/2010 11:32 AM, Shivdas Gujare wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I hope, this is the right mailing list for cgit as well.
>> I am trying to add some "html logs" inside cgit, but I can't open
>> these logs via cgit inside firefox, i.e. cgit open every files in
>> "plain" format,
>> would like to know if it is possible to open "html" pages inside cgit
>> so that if I click on html page added into git, it opens in html and
>> not in plain format.
>
> Set this in /etc/cgitrc
>
> mimetype.gif=image/gif
> mimetype.html=text/html
> mimetype.jpg=image/jpeg
> mimetype.jpeg=image/jpeg
> mimetype.pdf=application/pdf
> mimetype.png=image/png
> mimetype.svg=image/svg+xml
>

> HTH
>
> Stefan
> --
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>

> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Stefan Naewe
> <stefan.naewe@atlas-elektronik.com> wrote:
>> Set this in /etc/cgitrc
>>
>> mimetype.gif=image/gif
>> mimetype.html=text/html
>> mimetype.jpg=image/jpeg
>> mimetype.jpeg=image/jpeg
>> mimetype.pdf=application/pdf
>> mimetype.png=image/png
>> mimetype.svg=image/svg+xml
>>
>
> I did tried this, but it didn't made any difference on showing html
> pages.

> Hi Stefan & All,
> 
> Thanks for your replies.
> 
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Stefan Naewe
> <stefan.naewe@atlas-elektronik.com> wrote:
>> On 9/1/2010 11:32 AM, Shivdas Gujare wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I hope, this is the right mailing list for cgit as well.
>>> I am trying to add some "html logs" inside cgit, but I can't open
>>> these logs via cgit inside firefox, i.e. cgit open every files in
>>> "plain" format,
>>> would like to know if it is possible to open "html" pages inside cgit
>>> so that if I click on html page added into git, it opens in html and
>>> not in plain format.
>>
>> Set this in /etc/cgitrc
>>
>> mimetype.gif=image/gif
>> mimetype.html=text/html
>> mimetype.jpg=image/jpeg
>> mimetype.jpeg=image/jpeg
>> mimetype.pdf=application/pdf
>> mimetype.png=image/png
>> mimetype.svg=image/svg+xml
>>
> 
> I did tried this, but it didn't made any difference on showing html
> pages.