Re: git/webdav is refusing to authenticate properly.

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On Tuesday 13 January 2009, Johannes Schindelin 
<Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote about 'Re: git/webdav is refusing to 
authenticate properly.':
>Oh, and FWIW: trying to ridicule the way Git does it completely misses
> the fact that you are using such a ridiculously weak authentication
> scheme anyway that you could just as well open the window and shout your
> password out loud.

Using DIGEST auth would help, although it is still quite vulnerable, but I 
couldn't convince git to use that either.

I'm pretty sure even PLAIN auth is acceptable (security-wise) if used over 
SSL/TLS.  It would be really nice for contributors behind oppressive firewalls 
if they could push via https and not have their passwords exposed to the 
local BOFH.  (Who else sets up an oppressive firewall?)

SVN supported it.  It would be nice to add it to the list of git features.  
Still, it's just not important enough to me right now to make the time to 
throw together a PATCH/RFC.
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