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* http-backend: Use http.getanyfile to disable dumb HTTP servingShawn O. Pearce2009-11-041-6/+28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some repository owners may wish to enable smart HTTP, but disallow dumb content serving. Disallowing dumb serving might be because the owners want to rely upon reachability to control which objects clients may access from the repository, or they just want to encourage clients to use the more bandwidth efficient transport. If http.getanyfile is set to false the backend CGI will return with '403 Forbidden' when an object file is accessed by a dumb client. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* http-backend: add GIT_PROJECT_ROOT environment varMark Lodato2009-11-041-3/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | Add a new environment variable, GIT_PROJECT_ROOT, to override the method of using PATH_TRANSLATED to find the git repository on disk. This makes it much easier to configure the web server, especially when the web server's DocumentRoot does not contain the git repositories, which is the usual case. Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Smart fetch and push over HTTP: server sideShawn O. Pearce2009-11-041-3/+321
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Requests for $GIT_URL/git-receive-pack and $GIT_URL/git-upload-pack are forwarded to the corresponding backend process by directly executing it and leaving stdin and stdout connected to the invoking web server. Prior to starting the backend process the HTTP response headers are sent, thereby freeing the backend from needing to know about the HTTP protocol. Requests that are encoded with Content-Encoding: gzip are automatically inflated before being streamed into the backend. This is primarily useful for the git-upload-pack backend, which receives highly repetitive text data from clients that easily compresses to 50% of its original size. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Git-aware CGI to provide dumb HTTP transportShawn O. Pearce2009-11-041-0/+289
The git-http-backend CGI can be configured into any Apache server using ScriptAlias, such as with the following configuration: LoadModule cgi_module /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_cgi.so LoadModule alias_module /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_alias.so ScriptAlias /git/ /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/ Repositories are accessed via the translated PATH_INFO. The CGI is backwards compatible with the dumb client, allowing all older HTTP clients to continue to download repositories which are managed by the CGI. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>