Re: [PATCH v4 01/11] add fetch-pack --diag-url tests for some corner cases

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On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 07:48:30AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 09:07:41AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Mike Hommey <mh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 
> > > t5603-clone-dirname uses url patterns that are not tested with
> > > fetch-pack --diag-url, and it would be useful if they were.
> > >
> > > Interestingly, some of those tests, involving both a port and a
> > > user:password pair, don't currently pass. Note that even if a
> > > user:password pair is actually not supported by git, the values used
> > > could be valid user names (user names can actually contain colons
> > > and at signs), and are still worth testing the url parser for.
> > 
> > I am not sure about the last part of this (and the tests in the
> > patch for them).  When you are constrained by the Common Internet
> > Scheme Syntax, i.e.
> > 
> >     <scheme>://<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<url-path>
> > 
> > you cannot have arbitrary characters in these parts; within the user
> > and password field, any ":", "@", or "/" must be encoded.
> > 
> > Which maens that for the purpose of the parser you are modifying,
> > you can rely on these three special characters to parse things out
> > (decoding after the code determines which part is user and which
> > part is password is a separate issue).
> 
> t5603-clone-dirname contains a test for e.g. ssh://user:passw@rd@host:1234/
> That's the basis for these additions. Whether that should work or not is
> besides what I was interested in, which was to have a single test file to
> run to test my changes, instead of several.
> 
> Strictly speaking, this patch is not necessary, because it only covers
> things that I found while breaking other tests.
> 
> So, there are multiple possible ways forward here:
> - Completely remove this patch for v5 of the series.
> - Remove the user:passw@rd cases because of the @.
> - Remove the user:password cases because we do nothing with the password
>   anyways.
> - A combination of both of the above.

Any opinions on this?

Mike
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