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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Peter Simons <simons@cryp.to>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: gitweb sets incorrect <base> header
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:33:01 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k553oldj.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877i15uf14.fsf@write-only.cryp.to>

Peter Simons <simons@cryp.to> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> after a recent gitweb update to revision v1.6.3-rc3-12-gb79376c, the CGI now
> generates an incorrect <base> header. For example, the first "patch" on the
> page
> 
>   http://git.cryp.to/fastcgi/commitdiff/9ad9965b3fa293c458df14391f181f2f8f1197cd
> 
> erroneously refer to http://git.cryp.to/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi#patch1, but that
> page doesn't exist. It appears that $base_url is not determined correctly.
> 
> Does anyone have a clue how that problem can be fixed?

See gitweb/README:

 * $my_url, $my_uri
   Full URL and absolute URL of gitweb script;
   in earlier versions of gitweb you might have need to set those
   variables, now there should be no need to do it.

Or you can set up $base_url in your gitweb configuration file (which
is not mentioned in the gitweb/README, unfortunately).


Since 81d3fe9 (gitweb: fix wrong base URL when non-root DirectoryIndex)
by Giuseppe Bilotta (I have CC-ed him) gitweb tries to set $base_url
using $cgi->url(-base => 1) . $ENV{'SCRIPT_NAME'} if we use $path_info,
and if both $my_url and $my_uri begin with $path_info.

I do not know CGI.pm well enough to think up a better solution, but
when $base_url was introduced I have posted email on git mailing list
about slight mismatch between what CGI.pm thinks as absolute URL and
the notion of absolute URL and absolute _paths_ in appropriate RFC,
see e.g. 
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107344/focus=107437
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107898/focus=108010

P.S. I didn't look at the site in question.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-29  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-28 12:41 gitweb sets incorrect <base> header Peter Simons
2009-04-29  9:22 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2009-04-29  9:33 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2009-04-30 10:06   ` Peter Simons

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