From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Implementing CSP (Content Security Policy) for gitweb in the future
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 11:03:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201106051103.59541.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1307222101.5994.13.camel@localhost>
On Sat, 4 Jul 2011, Matt McCutchen qrote:
> On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 10:43 +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > The fact that it this buglet was present for so long, since its
> > introduction by Matt McCutchen in 7e1100e (gitweb: add $prevent_xss
> > option to prevent XSS by repository content, 2009-02-07) without
> > complaint shows that not many people are using this feature...
>
> Yes. Well, I'm still using it, and I found a few mentions on the web:
>
> https://android.git.kernel.org/?p=tools/gerrit.git;a=blob;f=gerrit-httpd/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/httpd/gitweb/GitWebServlet.java;h=947fbb423f1f8cf46db9876f4b80c600cdf9ee41;hb=HEAD#l193
> http://ao2.it/wiki/How_to_setup_a_GIT_server_with_gitosis_and_gitweb
> http://www.digitalfoo.net/posts/2009/11/git,_gitosis,_gitweb_on_FreeBSD/
>
> And there are probably others who did their own custom things (GitHub?)
> before the feature was added upstream.
In the future however it might be better solution for gitweb to implement
(as an option) support for CSP (Content Security Policy), which IIRC did
not exists in 2009, in addition to current $prevent_xss.
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-05 9:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-04 8:43 [PATCH] gitweb: Fix usability of $prevent_xss Jakub Narebski
2011-06-04 21:15 ` Prevalence " Matt McCutchen
2011-06-04 21:53 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-05 9:03 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2011-06-05 12:52 ` Implementing CSP (Content Security Policy) for gitweb in the future Matt McCutchen
2011-06-05 13:33 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-05 16:46 ` Matt McCutchen
2011-06-08 10:27 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-08 17:31 ` J.H.
2011-06-10 12:01 ` [PATCH] gitweb: Make $prevent_xss protection for 'blob_plain' more usable Jakub Narebski
2011-06-13 16:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-13 21:49 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-13 23:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-14 1:33 ` Jakub Narebski
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