From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Rick van Rein <rick@openfortress.nl>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Matthew John Cheetham <mjcheetham@github.com>
Subject: Re: Git over HTTP; have flexible SASL authentication
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 09:06:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq7cx7aov7.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230127163434.GA784@openfortress.nl> (Rick van Rein's message of "Fri, 27 Jan 2023 16:34:34 +0000")
Rick van Rein <rick@openfortress.nl> writes:
> Git providers are inventing proprietary extensions to HTTP authentication
> for Git. It seems smarter to use SASL for this purpose, possibly allowing
> the client a choice and authentication ringback to the client's own domain.
To adopt things like this, the work to extend how to make extensible
what is on WWW-Authenticate in the thread that contains this recent
message https://lore.kernel.org/git/Y9LvFMzriAWUsS58@coredump.intra.peff.net/
may be relevant, perhaps?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-27 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-27 16:34 Git over HTTP; have flexible SASL authentication Rick van Rein
2023-01-27 17:06 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2023-02-01 11:24 ` Jeff King
2023-02-01 19:36 ` Matthew John Cheetham
2023-02-04 11:34 ` Rick van Rein
2023-02-06 22:08 ` Junio C Hamano
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