If the config option http.cookiefile is set, pass this file to libCURL using the CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE option. This is similar to calling curl with the -b option. This allows git http authorization with authentication mechanisms that use cookies, such as SAML Enhanced Client or Proxy (ECP) used by Shibboleth.
To use SAML/ECP, the user needs to request a session cookie with their own ECP code. See for example:
<https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/ECP>
Once the cookie file has been created, it can be passed to git with, e.g.
git config --global http.cookiefile "/home/dbrown/.curlcookies"
libCURL will then pass the appropriate session cookies to the git http server.
Signed-off-by: Duncan Brown <duncan.brown@ligo.org> --- Documentation/config.txt | 8 ++++++++ http.c | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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Documentation/config.txt, http.c
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 6b93777..c631d1c 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -1196,6 +1196,14 @@ http.proxy:: environment variable (see linkgit:curl[1]). This can be overridden on a per-remote basis; see remote.<name>.proxy +http.cookiefile:: + File containing previously stored cookie lines which should be used + in the git http session, if they match the server. The file format + of the file to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers or + the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format (see linkgit:curl[1]). + NOTE that the file specified with http.cookiefile is only used as + input. No cookies will be stored in the file. + http.sslVerify:: Whether to verify the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY' environment diff --git a/http.c b/http.c index b2ae8de..a1ea3db 100644 --- a/http.c +++ b/http.c @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ static long curl_low_speed_limit = -1; static long curl_low_speed_time = -1; static int curl_ftp_no_epsv; static const char *curl_http_proxy; +static const char *curl_cookie_file; static char *user_name, *user_pass; static const char *user_agent; @@ -191,6 +192,9 @@ static int http_options(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb) if (!strcmp("http.proxy", var)) return git_config_string(&curl_http_proxy, var, value); + if (!strcmp("http.cookiefile", var)) + return git_config_string(&curl_cookie_file, var, value); + if (!strcmp("http.postbuffer", var)) { http_post_buffer = git_config_int(var, value); if (http_post_buffer < LARGE_PACKET_MAX) @@ -531,6 +535,7 @@ struct active_request_slot *get_active_slot(void) slot->finished = NULL; slot->callback_data = NULL; slot->callback_func = NULL; + curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, curl_cookie_file); curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, pragma_header); curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER, curl_errorstr); curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, NULL);
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