On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 08:36:45AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote: > I also think the security implications for relative alternates > on the same host would not matter, since the smart HTTP will > take them into account on the server side.
It depends on the host whether all of the repos on it have the same security domain or not. A site like github.com hosts both public and private repositories, and you do not want a public repo redirecting to the private one to get objects. Of course, that depends on untrusted users being able to configure server-side alternates, which GitHub certainly would not let you do. I would hope other multi-user hosting sites behave similarly (most hosting sites do not seem to allow dumb http at all). > Perhaps we give http_follow_config ORable flags: > > HTTP_FOLLOW_NONE = 0, > HTTP_FOLLOW_INITIAL = 0x1, > HTTP_FOLLOW_RELATIVE = 0x2, > HTTP_FOLLOW_ABSOLUTE = 0x4, > HTTP_FOLLOW_ALWAYS = 0x7, > > With the default would being: HTTP_FOLLOW_INITIAL|HTTP_FOLLOW_RELATIVE > (but I suppose that's a patch for another time) I don't have a real problem with breaking it down that way, if somebody wants to make a patch. Mostly the reason I didn't do so is that I don't think http-alternates are in common use these days, since smart-http is much more powerful. > ----------8<----------- > From: Eric Wong <e...@80x24.org> > Subject: [PATCH] http: inform about alternates-as-redirects behavior This v2 looks fine to me. -Peff
