Re: [PATCH] Fix problem with authentification on http repository.

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 11:28:15PM -0700, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 10:44:58PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> >> 
> >> > On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> We never supported URLs with embedded credentials (see
> >> >> Documentation/urls.txt), partly because nobody asked for it, but
> >> >> more importantly because giving -n to curl to have it read from
> >> >> user's .netrc is generally much more preferred approach.
> >> >
> >> > To elaborate on that: if you fetch from somewhere, your url, username and 
> >> > password can be read from the output of "ps ax | grep http" very easily.
> >> 
> >> Actually Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt
> >> talks about http://user@server/path/ format.  How well does this
> >> work in practice?  If it does, we should update Documentation/urls.txt
> >> to allow optional user@ there like...
> >
> > AFAIK, there is nothing to deal with asking a password to the user in git
> > in this case, so that doesn't work.
> 
> Then perhaps the howto needs updating?

Actually, the howto tells to setup a ~/.netrc file, which should make
the http://user@server/path/ format work. I don't know if dropping user@
would still work, that depends how libcurl works with it.

Mike