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The http-walker may fetch the http-alternates (or alternates) file from a remote in order to find more objects. This should count as a "not from the user" use of the protocol. But because we implement the redirection ourselves and feed the new URL to curl, it will use the CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS rules, not the more restrictive CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS. The ideal solution would be for each curl request we make to know whether or not is directly from the user or part of an alternates redirect, and then set CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS as appropriate. However, that would require plumbing that information through all of the various layers of the http code. Instead, let's check the protocol at the source: when we are parsing the remote http-alternates file. The only downside is that if there's any mismatch between what protocol we think it is versus what curl thinks it is, it could violate the policy. To address this, we'll make the parsing err on the picky side, and only allow protocols that it can parse definitively. So for example, you can't elude the "http" policy by asking for "HTTP://", even though curl might handle it; we would reject it as unknown. The only unsafe case would be if you have a URL that starts with "http://" but curl interprets as another protocol. That seems like an unlikely failure mode (and we are still protected by our base CURLOPT_PROTOCOL setting, so the worst you could do is trigger one of https, ftp, or ftps). Signed-off-by:
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by:
Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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