From: Matthew John Cheetham <mjcheetham@xxxxxxxxxxx> Add the value of the WWW-Authenticate response header to credential requests. Credential helpers that understand and support HTTP authentication and authorization can use this standard header (RFC 2616 Section 14.47 [1]) to generate valid credentials. WWW-Authenticate headers can contain information pertaining to the authority, authentication mechanism, or extra parameters/scopes that are required. The current I/O format for credential helpers only allows for unique names for properties/attributes, so in order to transmit multiple header values (with a specific order) we introduce a new convention whereby a C-style array syntax is used in the property name to denote multiple ordered values for the same property. In this case we send multiple `wwwauth[]` properties where the order that the repeated attributes appear in the conversation reflects the order that the WWW-Authenticate headers appeared in the HTTP response. [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2616#section-14.47 Signed-off-by: Matthew John Cheetham <mjcheetham@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-credential.txt | 17 ++++++++++++++++- credential.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential.txt b/Documentation/git-credential.txt index f18673017f5..791a57dddfb 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-credential.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-credential.txt @@ -113,7 +113,13 @@ separated by an `=` (equals) sign, followed by a newline. The key may contain any bytes except `=`, newline, or NUL. The value may contain any bytes except newline or NUL. -In both cases, all bytes are treated as-is (i.e., there is no quoting, +Attributes with keys that end with C-style array brackets `[]` can have +multiple values. Each instance of a multi-valued attribute forms an +ordered list of values - the order of the repeated attributes defines +the order of the values. An empty multi-valued attribute (`key[]=\n`) +acts to clear any previous entries and reset the list. + +In all cases, all bytes are treated as-is (i.e., there is no quoting, and one cannot transmit a value with newline or NUL in it). The list of attributes is terminated by a blank line or end-of-file. @@ -160,6 +166,15 @@ empty string. Components which are missing from the URL (e.g., there is no username in the example above) will be left unset. +`wwwauth[]`:: + + When an HTTP response is received by Git that includes one or more + 'WWW-Authenticate' authentication headers, these will be passed by Git + to credential helpers. + Each 'WWW-Authenticate' header value is passed as a multi-valued + attribute 'wwwauth[]', where the order of the attributes is the same as + they appear in the HTTP response. + GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/credential.c b/credential.c index 897b4679333..8a3ad6c0ae2 100644 --- a/credential.c +++ b/credential.c @@ -263,6 +263,17 @@ static void credential_write_item(FILE *fp, const char *key, const char *value, fprintf(fp, "%s=%s\n", key, value); } +static void credential_write_strvec(FILE *fp, const char *key, + const struct strvec *vec) +{ + int i = 0; + const char *full_key = xstrfmt("%s[]", key); + for (; i < vec->nr; i++) { + credential_write_item(fp, full_key, vec->v[i], 0); + } + free((void*)full_key); +} + void credential_write(const struct credential *c, FILE *fp) { credential_write_item(fp, "protocol", c->protocol, 1); @@ -270,6 +281,7 @@ void credential_write(const struct credential *c, FILE *fp) credential_write_item(fp, "path", c->path, 0); credential_write_item(fp, "username", c->username, 0); credential_write_item(fp, "password", c->password, 0); + credential_write_strvec(fp, "wwwauth", &c->wwwauth_headers); } static int run_credential_helper(struct credential *c, -- gitgitgadget
