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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 20:15:42 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Supporting git access via smart HTTPS protocol for
musl-libc
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
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