From: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Supporting git access via smart HTTPS protocol for musl-libc
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 20:15:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190327001542.GG23599@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190326235835.GF23599@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 07:58:35PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 04:32:32PM -0600, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks for the info. I've been playing with it, but haven't been able
> > > to get it to work yet. I suspect thttpd is doing something broken with
> > > the POST request since the git clone breaks during that. Going to look
> > > at it in more detail later.
> >
> > The same happened to me with busybox, and was solved by forcing:
> >
> > export HTTP_CONTENT_ENCODING=gzip
> >
> > Seems to me (from a cursory look) that "git clone" client always sends
> > gzipped (inflate) data, but either doesn't set the HTTP encoding header,
> > or the header gets lost somehow.
> >
> > The git-http-backend uses that header to decide whether to deflate
> > the stream or not (
> > https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/http-backend.c#L460 ).
> >
> > That's the first thing I'd try if the GET request worked but the
> > following "POST git-update-pack"
> > does not.
>
> Amazingly, this works, but only if I do it only for
> REQUEST_METHOD=POST. Otherwise it breaks the GET request and it never
> makes it to the POST. *sigh* There's got to be some better way to fix
> this.
Anyway, for now this is vaguely working, but it's a hack and it's
experimental and might break. Users interested in testing can clone:
https://git.musl-libc.org/git/musl
It might go up and down while I'm hacking on getting it right, but I
intend for the URL to be permanent in the long term.
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-27 0:15 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <20190326003411.GC1872@localhost>
2019-03-26 1:09 ` vlse
2019-03-26 1:17 ` A. Wilcox
2019-03-26 1:37 ` Rich Felker
2019-03-26 1:54 ` vlse
2019-03-26 2:59 ` Rich Felker
2019-03-26 10:02 ` vlse
2019-03-26 10:36 ` Laurent Bercot
2019-03-26 15:04 ` Rich Felker
2019-03-26 15:09 ` Drew DeVault
2019-03-26 15:13 ` Rich Felker
2019-03-26 15:43 ` Drew DeVault
2019-03-26 15:47 ` Rich Felker
2019-03-26 15:57 ` Drew DeVault
2019-03-26 17:57 ` Rich Felker
2019-03-26 20:32 ` A. Wilcox
2019-03-26 20:39 ` Assaf Gordon
2019-03-26 22:02 ` Rich Felker
2019-03-26 22:32 ` Assaf Gordon
2019-03-26 23:58 ` Rich Felker
2019-03-27 0:15 ` Rich Felker [this message]
2019-03-27 5:39 ` vlse
2019-03-27 17:26 ` Assaf Gordon
2019-03-27 17:41 ` Assaf Gordon
2019-04-03 6:42 ` vlse
2019-03-26 10:19 ` Jens Gustedt
2019-03-26 10:30 ` vlse
2019-03-26 14:59 ` Rich Felker
2019-03-26 1:43 ` vlse
2019-03-26 2:29 ` A. Wilcox
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