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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: jean.guyader@linkea.org
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jean Guyader <jean.guyader@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix problem with authentification on http repository.
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:38:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v8x6pjb4c.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11911047823308-git-send-email-jean.guyader@linkea.org> (jean guyader's message of "Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:26:22 +0200")

jean.guyader@linkea.org writes:

> From: Jean Guyader <jean.guyader@gmail.com>
>
> Curl uses the option -u user:passwd and not the user:password
> given in the url.
> The solution was to extract user:password from the url and set
> the option.
>
> Here the regex used :
>         sed -re 's-.*http://([^:]*):([^@]+)@.*-\1:\2-g'

This is more like "allowing embedded authentication credentials
in URL for http transport".

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.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-29 23:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-29 22:26 [PATCH] Fix problem with authentification on http repository jean.guyader
2007-09-29 23:10 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-29 23:38 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-09-29 23:40   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-30  0:02     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-09  5:44       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-09  5:51         ` Mike Hommey
2008-07-09  6:28           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-09  7:53             ` Mike Hommey
2008-07-09  8:04               ` Daniel Stenberg
2008-07-09  8:18               ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-09  8:56                 ` Mike Hommey
2008-07-09 11:43                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-10  7:24                     ` Jeff King
2008-07-10  7:32                       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-10  8:47                         ` Jeff King
2008-07-10 10:51                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-10 11:30                         ` Andreas Ericsson

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