does the git over ssh protocol tell the server the hostname?

does the git over ssh protocol tell the server the hostname?

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

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Hey.

Short question:

I saw that when plain git (i.e. git://) is used, the client tells the
server the hostname specified on the client side.
For http one has the same automatically via http's Host: header.

But after watching the git's over-ssh protocol, I couldn't find anything
like that there? :-(

Would be quite nice to have this in order to implement vhosting like
things.

Cheers,
Chris.

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Re: does the git over ssh protocol tell the server the hostname?

[Shawn Pearce]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer
<calestyo@scientia.net> wrote:
>
> I saw that when plain git (i.e. git://) is used, the client tells the
> server the hostname specified on the client side.
> For http one has the same automatically via http's Host: header.
>
> But after watching the git's over-ssh protocol, I couldn't find anything
> like that there? :-(

No, it does not send the host name.

The host name in SSH that Git sees could be an alias in the user's
~/.ssh/config file that is rewritten to a different host. So virtual
hosting keying off that could be confusing since the end user expects
to have more control over it than they do with git:// or https://
where the host name is usually a DNS record the user does not control.