Improve documentation to illustrate "push authenticated, fetch
anonymous" configuration for smart HTTP servers.
* jk/doc-http-backend:
doc/http-backend: match query-string in apache half-auth example
doc/http-backend: give some lighttpd config examples
doc/http-backend: clarify "half-auth" repo configuration
When setting up a "half-auth" repository in which reads can
be done anonymously but writes require authentication, it is
best if the server can require authentication for both the
ref advertisement and the actual receive-pack POSTs. This
alleviates the need for the admin to set http.receivepack in
the repositories, and means that the client is challenged
for credentials immediately, instead of partway through the
push process (and git clients older than v1.7.11.7 had
trouble handling these challenges).
Since detecting a push during the ref advertisement requires
matching the query string, and this is non-trivial to do in
Apache, we have traditionally punted and instructed users to
just protect "/git-receive-pack$". This patch provides the
mod_rewrite recipe to actually match the ref advertisement,
which is preferred.
While we're at it, let's add the recipe to our test scripts
so that we can be sure that it works, and doesn't get broken
(either by our changes or by changes in Apache).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Filter the list of refs returned via the dumb HTTP protocol according
to the active namespace, consistent with other clients of the
upload-pack service.
Signed-off-by: John Koleszar <jkoleszar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before parsing a suspected smart-HTTP response verify the returned
Content-Type matches the standard. This protects a client from
attempting to process a payload that smells like a smart-HTTP
server response.
JGit has been doing this check on all responses since the dawn of
time. I mistakenly failed to include it in git-core when smart HTTP
was introduced. At the time I didn't know how to get the Content-Type
from libcurl. I punted, meant to circle back and fix this, and just
plain forgot about it.
Signed-off-by: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fixes fetch from servers that ask for auth only during the actual
packing phase. This is not really a recommended configuration, but it
cleans up the code at the same time.
* jk/maint-http-half-auth-fetch:
remote-curl: retry failed requests for auth even with gzip
remote-curl: hoist gzip buffer size to top of post_rpc
Commit b81401c taught the post_rpc function to retry the
http request after prompting for credentials. However, it
did not handle two cases:
1. If we have a large request, we do not retry. That's OK,
since we would have sent a probe (with retry) already.
2. If we are gzipping the request, we do not retry. That
was considered OK, because the intended use was for
push (e.g., listing refs is OK, but actually pushing
objects is not), and we never gzip on push.
This patch teaches post_rpc to retry even a gzipped request.
This has two advantages:
1. It is possible to configure a "half-auth" state for
fetching, where the set of refs and their sha1s are
advertised, but one cannot actually fetch objects.
This is not a recommended configuration, as it leaks
some information about what is in the repository (e.g.,
an attacker can try brute-forcing possible content in
your repository and checking whether it matches your
branch sha1). However, it can be slightly more
convenient, since a no-op fetch will not require a
password at all.
2. It future-proofs us should we decide to ever gzip more
requests.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Pushing to smart HTTP server with recent Git fails without having
the username in the URL to force authentication, if the server is
configured to allow GET anonymously, while requiring authentication
for POST.
* jk/maint-http-half-auth-push:
http: prompt for credentials on failed POST
http: factor out http error code handling
t: test http access to "half-auth" repositories
t: test basic smart-http authentication
t/lib-httpd: recognize */smart/* repos as smart-http
t/lib-httpd: only route auth/dumb to dumb repos
t5550: factor out http auth setup
t5550: put auth-required repo in auth/dumb
Some sites set up http access to repositories such that
fetching is anonymous and unauthenticated, but pushing is
authenticated. While there are multiple ways to do this, the
technique advertised in the git-http-backend manpage is to
block access to locations matching "/git-receive-pack$".
Let's emulate that advice in our test setup, which makes it
clear that this advice does not actually work.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We do not currently test authentication for smart-http repos
at all. Part of the infrastructure to do this is recognizing
that auth/smart is indeed a smart-http repo.
The current apache config recognizes only "^/smart/*" as
smart-http. Let's instead treat anything with /smart/ in the
URL as smart-http. This is obviously a stupid thing to do
for a real production site, but for our test suite we know
that our repositories will not have this magic string in the
name.
Note that we will route /foo/smart/bar.git directly to
git-http-backend/bar.git; in other words, everything before
the "/smart/" is irrelevant to finding the repo on disk (but
may impact apache config, for example by triggering auth
checks).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our test apache config points all of auth/ directly to the
on-disk repositories via an Alias directive. This works fine
because everything authenticated is currently in auth/dumb,
which is a subset. However, this would conflict with a
ScriptAlias for auth/smart (which will come in future
patches), so let's narrow the Alias.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Running the http tests with valgrind does not work for two
reasons:
1. Apache complains about following the symbolic link from
git-http-backend to valgrind.sh.
2. Apache does not pass through the GIT_VALGRIND variable
to the backend CGI.
This patch fixes both problems. Unfortunately, there is a
slight hack we need to handle passing environment variables
through Apache. If we just tell it:
PassEnv GIT_VALGRIND
then Apache will complain when GIT_VALGRIND is not set. If
we try:
SetEnv GIT_VALGRIND ${GIT_VALGRIND}
then when GIT_VALGRIND is not set, it will pass through the
literal "${GIT_VALGRIND}". Instead, we now unconditionally
pass through GIT_VALGRIND from lib-httpd.sh into apache,
even if it is empty.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The http-backend program sets default GIT_COMMITTER_NAME and
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL variables based on the REMOTE_USER and
REMOTE_ADDR variables provided by the webserver. However, it
unconditionally overwrites any existing GIT_COMMITTER
variables, which may have been customized by site-specific
code in the webserver (or in a script wrapping http-backend).
Let's leave those variables intact if they already exist,
assuming that any such configuration was intentional. There
is a slight chance of a regression if somebody has set
GIT_COMMITTER_* for the entire webserver, not intending it
to leak through http-backend. We could protect against this
by passing the information in alternate variables. However,
it seems unlikely that anyone will care about that
regression, and there is value in the simplicity of using
the common variable names that are used elsewhere in git.
While we're tweaking the environment-handling in
http-backend, let's switch it to use argv_array to handle
the list of variables. That makes the memory management much
simpler.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We don't currently test this case at all, and instead just
test the DAV mechanism over an unauthenticated push. That
isn't very realistic, as most people will want to
authenticate pushes.
Two of the tests expect_failure as they reveal bugs:
1. Pushing without a username in the URL fails to ask for
credentials when we get an HTTP 401. This has always
been the case, but it would be nice if it worked like
smart-http.
2. Pushing with a username fails to ask for the password
since 986bbc0 (http: don't always prompt for password,
2011-11-04). This is a severe regression in v1.7.8, as
authenticated push-over-DAV is now totally unusable
unless you have credentials in your .netrc.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* gc/http-with-non-ascii-username-url:
Fix username and password extraction from HTTP URLs
t5550: test HTTP authentication and userinfo decoding
Conflicts:
t/lib-httpd/apache.conf
Add a test for HTTP authentication and proper percent-decoding of the
userinfo (username and password) part of the URL.
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Corona <gabriel.corona@enst-bretagne.fr>
Acked-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For a long time (29508e1 "Isolate shared HTTP request functionality", Fri
Nov 18 11:02:58 2005), we've followed HTTP redirects with
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION.
However, when the remote HTTP server returns a redirect the default
libcurl action is to change a POST request into a GET request while
following the redirect, but the remote http backend does not expect
that.
Fix this by telling libcurl to always keep the request as type POST with
CURLOPT_POSTREDIR.
For users of libcurl older than 7.19.1, use CURLOPT_POST301 instead,
which only follows 301s instead of both 301s and 302s.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similar to how git-daemon checks whether a repository is OK to be
exported, smart-http should also check. This check can be satisfied
in two different ways: the environmental variable GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL
may be set to export all repositories, or the individual repository
may have the file git-daemon-export-ok.
Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Tarmigan Casebolt <tarmigan+git@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The top level directory "/smart/" of the test Apache server is mapped
through our git-http-backend CGI, but uses the same underlying
repository space as the server's document root. This is the most
simple installation possible.
Server logs are checked to verify the client has accessed only the
smart URLs during the test. During fetch testing the headers are
also logged from libcurl to ensure we are making a reasonably sane
HTTP request, and getting back reasonably sane response headers
from the CGI.
When validating the request headers used during smart fetch we munge
away the actual Content-Length and replace it with the placeholder
"xxx". This avoids unnecessary varability in the test caused by
an unrelated change in the requested capabilities in the first want
line of the request. However, we still want to look for and verify
that Content-Length was used, because smaller payloads should be
using Content-Length and not "Transfer-Encoding: chunked".
When validating the server response headers we must discard both
Content-Length and Transfer-Encoding, as Apache2 can use either
format to return our response.
During development of this test I observed Apache returning both
forms, depending on when the processes got CPU time. If our CGI
returned the pack data quickly, Apache just buffered the whole
thing and returned a Content-Length. If our CGI took just a bit
too long to complete, Apache flushed its buffer and instead used
"Transfer-Encoding: chunked".
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To clarify what part of the HTTP transprot is being tested we change
the URLs used by existing tests to include /dumb/ at the start,
indicating they use the non-Git aware code paths.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
CC: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have PidFile definition in the file already, and we have added
necessary LoadModule for log_config_module recently.
This patch will end up giving LockFile to everybody not just limited to
Darwin, but why not?
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
LoadModule directive for log_config_module will not work if the module is
built-in.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The log_config module is needed for at least some versions of apache to
support the LogFormat directive.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch allows the HTTP tests to run on OS X 10.5. It is not
sufficient to be able to pass in LIB_HTTPD_PATH and
LIB_HTTPD_MODULE_PATH alone, as the apache.conf also needs a couple
tweaks.
These changes are put into an <IfDefine> to keep them Darwin specific,
but this means lib-httpd.sh needs to be modified to pass -DDarwin to
apache when running on Darwin. As long as we're making this change to
lib-httpd.sh, we may as well set LIB_HTTPD_PATH and
LIB_HTTPD_MODULE_PATH to appropriate default values for the platform.
Note that we now pass HTTPD_PARA to apache at shutdown as well.
Otherwise apache will emit a harmless, but noisy warning that LogFormat
is an unknown directive.
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function lock_remote() sends MKCOL requests to make leading
directories; However, if it does not put a forward slash '/' at the end of
the path, the server sends a 301 redirect.
By leaving the '/' in place, we can avoid this additional step.
Incidentally, at least one version of Curl (7.16.3) does not resend
credentials when it follows a 301 redirect, so this commit also fixes
a bug.
Original patch by Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On some setups, apache will say:
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified
domain name, using $(IP_address) for ServerName
Avoid this message polluting tests output by setting a ServerName in
apache configuration.
Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
http-push tests require a web server with WebDAV support.
This commit introduces a HTTPD test library, which can be configured using
the following environment variables.
GIT_TEST_HTTPD enable HTTPD tests
LIB_HTTPD_PATH web server path
LIB_HTTPD_MODULE_PATH web server modules path
LIB_HTTPD_PORT listening port
LIB_HTTPD_DAV enable DAV
LIB_HTTPD_SVN enable SVN
LIB_HTTPD_SSL enable SSL
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
