From: Jason at zx2c4.com (Jason A. Donenfeld)
Subject: XSS in cgit
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 12:34:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHmME9qJA5q_n2-+mRsh6tqNdXtRd5e_28JFFQF4RTKjKHjaxQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160113191100.GA1660@dcvr.yhbt.net>
On Jan 13, 2016 9:11 PM, "Eric Wong" <normalperson at yhbt.net> wrote:
>
> "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason at zx2c4.com> wrote:
> > Given all this, could somebody remind me why we have both /plain and
> > /blob handlers? And if it's still necessary to maintain a distinction?
> > If not, I will gladly accept patches to unify these.
>
> IIRC, the main difference was blob allows serving tree objects
> as-is in binary form while plain generates an HTML directory listing.
Thanks, this is what I thought, which leads me to the more relevant
question:
Given that the /blob handler returns binary directory data, it must conform
to a particular API in order to be useful. Was the recently removed
/blob/?mimetype= query string parameter part of such an API? Have we maimed
something useful?
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2016-01-13 16:07 Jason
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2016-01-16 0:23 ` Jason
2016-01-16 9:38 ` john
2016-01-17 16:23 ` Fwd: " Jason
2016-01-14 10:57 ` john
2016-01-14 11:01 ` Jason
2016-01-14 11:07 ` john
2016-01-14 11:53 ` mailings
2016-01-14 12:59 ` Jason
2016-01-14 13:35 ` Jason
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