Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] remote-curl: Obey passed URL

From: Michael J Gruber <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:51:20 +0200

Jeff King venit, vidit, dixit 06.10.2011 15:37:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 09:25:00AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> 
>> Your analysis is correct, but tweaking the remote object seems kind
>> of ugly. I think a nicer solution would be to pass the URL in
>> separately to http_init. Of the three existing callers:
> 
> Here's what that patch looks like. It's definitely an improvement and
> fixes a real bug, so it may be worth applying. But I'm still going to
> look into pushing the url examination closer to the point of use.

It definitely is an improvement. I've been running happily with this
(and without my askpass helper/workaround). Are you going forward with
this one?

> 
> -- >8 --
> Subject: [PATCH] http_init: accept separate URL parameter
> 
> The http_init function takes a "struct remote". Part of its
> initialization procedure is to look at the remote's url and
> grab some auth-related parameters. However, using the url
> included in the remote is:
> 
>   - wrong; the remote-curl helper may have a separate,
>     unrelated URL (e.g., from remote.*.pushurl). Looking at
>     the remote's configured url is incorrect.
> 
>   - incomplete; http-fetch doesn't have a remote, so passes
>     NULL. So http_init never gets to see the URL we are
>     actually going to use.
> 
>   - cumbersome; http-push has a similar problem to
>     http-fetch, but actually builds a fake remote just to
>     pass in the URL.
> 
> Instead, let's just add a separate URL parameter to
> http_init, and all three callsites can pass in the
> appropriate information.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  http-fetch.c  |    2 +-
>  http-push.c   |   10 +---------
>  http.c        |    8 ++++----
>  http.h        |    2 +-
>  remote-curl.c |    2 +-
>  5 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/http-fetch.c b/http-fetch.c
> index 3af4c71..e341872 100644
> --- a/http-fetch.c
> +++ b/http-fetch.c
> @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
>  
>  	git_config(git_default_config, NULL);
>  
> -	http_init(NULL);
> +	http_init(NULL, url);
>  	walker = get_http_walker(url);
>  	walker->get_tree = get_tree;
>  	walker->get_history = get_history;
> diff --git a/http-push.c b/http-push.c
> index 376331a..215b640 100644
> --- a/http-push.c
> +++ b/http-push.c
> @@ -1747,7 +1747,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>  	int i;
>  	int new_refs;
>  	struct ref *ref, *local_refs;
> -	struct remote *remote;
>  
>  	git_extract_argv0_path(argv[0]);
>  
> @@ -1821,14 +1820,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>  
>  	memset(remote_dir_exists, -1, 256);
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * Create a minimum remote by hand to give to http_init(),
> -	 * primarily to allow it to look at the URL.
> -	 */
> -	remote = xcalloc(sizeof(*remote), 1);
> -	ALLOC_GROW(remote->url, remote->url_nr + 1, remote->url_alloc);
> -	remote->url[remote->url_nr++] = repo->url;
> -	http_init(remote);
> +	http_init(NULL, repo->url);
>  
>  #ifdef USE_CURL_MULTI
>  	is_running_queue = 0;
> diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
> index b2ae8de..d9f9938 100644
> --- a/http.c
> +++ b/http.c
> @@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ static void set_from_env(const char **var, const char *envname)
>  		*var = val;
>  }
>  
> -void http_init(struct remote *remote)
> +void http_init(struct remote *remote, const char *url)
>  {
>  	char *low_speed_limit;
>  	char *low_speed_time;
> @@ -421,11 +421,11 @@ void http_init(struct remote *remote)
>  	if (getenv("GIT_CURL_FTP_NO_EPSV"))
>  		curl_ftp_no_epsv = 1;
>  
> -	if (remote && remote->url && remote->url[0]) {
> -		http_auth_init(remote->url[0]);
> +	if (url) {
> +		http_auth_init(url);
>  		if (!ssl_cert_password_required &&
>  		    getenv("GIT_SSL_CERT_PASSWORD_PROTECTED") &&
> -		    !prefixcmp(remote->url[0], "https://"))
> +		    !prefixcmp(url, "https://"))
>  			ssl_cert_password_required = 1;
>  	}
>  
> diff --git a/http.h b/http.h
> index 0bf8592..3c332a9 100644
> --- a/http.h
> +++ b/http.h
> @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ struct buffer {
>  extern void step_active_slots(void);
>  #endif
>  
> -extern void http_init(struct remote *remote);
> +extern void http_init(struct remote *remote, const char *url);
>  extern void http_cleanup(void);
>  
>  extern int data_received;
> diff --git a/remote-curl.c b/remote-curl.c
> index 69831e9..33d3d8c 100644
> --- a/remote-curl.c
> +++ b/remote-curl.c
> @@ -852,7 +852,7 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
>  
>  	url = strbuf_detach(&buf, NULL);
>  
> -	http_init(remote);
> +	http_init(remote, url);
>  
>  	do {
>  		if (strbuf_getline(&buf, stdin, '\n') == EOF)