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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] gitweb: Support filtering projects by .htaccess files.
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 19:44:02 +0100
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Le Monday 03 November 2008 19:18:56 Jakub Narebski, vous avez =C3=A9cri=
t=C2=A0:

> >=20
> > Well, as far as Apache is concerned, it can do:
> >=20
> > * basic .htpasswd authentication,
> > * LDAP,
> > * PAM,
> > * SSL certificate check (via mod_ssl),
> > * probably others.
> >=20
> > Plenty of possibilities.
> [...]
>=20
> Well, the question is if Apache (and other web servers used with
> gitweb) can do authentication based on path_info or on query-string.
> Because it is encoded in gitweb (via $projectroot) where to find git
> repositories...
>=20

Can you expand on path_info and query-string? Keep in mind that Apache
has mod_rewrite, which can rewrite URLs in any way before it gets
actually sent to the underlying program (whether it be a CGI or
anything else), even badly (or mischievously).

--=20
fge