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Anonymize URLs in error messages and warnings of git-remote-curl

PATCH In review Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget 3 participants 4 messages Mar 4, 2019 – Mar 5, 2019

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I have just noticed locally that certain errors (in my case, a stale entry in /etc/hosts) use the un-scrubbed URL in the error message when dying. Let's scrub them.

Johannes Schindelin (1):
curl: anonymize URLs in error messages and warnings

 remote-curl.c | 19 +++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

base-commit: 8104ec994ea3849a968b4667d072fedd1e688642
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-156%2Fdscho%2Fmore-stripped-usernames-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-156/dscho/more-stripped-usernames-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/156

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PATCH 1/1 curl: anonymize URLs in error messages and warnings

From: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>

Just like 47abd85ba0 (fetch: Strip usernames from url's before storing them, 2009-04-17) and later 882d49ca5c (push: anonymize URL in status output, 2016-07-13), this change anonymizes URLs (read: strips them of user names and especially passwords) in user-facing error messages and warnings.

---
 remote-curl.c | 19 +++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
remote-curl.c +13 -6
index bb7421023b..e32359034d 100644
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include "send-pack.h"
 #include "protocol.h"
 #include "quote.h"
+#include "transport.h"
 
 static struct remote *remote;
 /* always ends with a trailing slash */
@@ -251,7 +252,7 @@ static struct ref *parse_info_refs(struct discovery *heads)
 		if (data[i] == '\n') {
 			if (mid - start != 40)
 				die("%sinfo/refs not valid: is this a git repository?",
-				    url.buf);
+				    transport_anonymize_url(url.buf));
 			data[i] = 0;
 			ref_name = mid + 1;
 			ref = alloc_ref(ref_name);
@@ -442,17 +443,23 @@ static struct discovery *discover_refs(const char *service, int for_push)
 		break;
 	case HTTP_MISSING_TARGET:
 		show_http_message(&type, &charset, &buffer);
-		die("repository '%s' not found", url.buf);
+		die("repository '%s' not found",
+		    transport_anonymize_url(url.buf));
 	case HTTP_NOAUTH:
 		show_http_message(&type, &charset, &buffer);
-		die("Authentication failed for '%s'", url.buf);
+		die("Authentication failed for '%s'",
+		    transport_anonymize_url(url.buf));
 	default:
 		show_http_message(&type, &charset, &buffer);
-		die("unable to access '%s': %s", url.buf, curl_errorstr);
+		die("unable to access '%s': %s",
+		    transport_anonymize_url(url.buf), curl_errorstr);
 	}
 
-	if (options.verbosity && !starts_with(refs_url.buf, url.buf))
-		warning(_("redirecting to %s"), url.buf);
+	if (options.verbosity && !starts_with(refs_url.buf, url.buf)) {
+		char *u = transport_anonymize_url(url.buf);
+		warning(_("redirecting to %s"), u);
+		free(u);
+	}
 
 	last= xcalloc(1, sizeof(*last_discovery));
 	last->service = xstrdup(service);
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Re: [PATCH 1/1] curl: anonymize URLs in error messages and warnings

Quoted 7 lines · Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget

From: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>

Just like 47abd85ba0 (fetch: Strip usernames from url's before storing them, 2009-04-17) and later 882d49ca5c (push: anonymize URL in status output, 2016-07-13), this change anonymizes URLs (read: strips them of user names and especially passwords) in user-facing error messages and warnings.

Yeah, these all look obviously correct. I suspect most people haven't noticed them because it's pretty easy to use a real password helper these days instead of shoving it into the URL.

remote-curl.c static struct ref *parse_info_refs(struct discovery *heads) · line 255

Quoted 6 lines
remote-curl.c +1 -1
@@ -251,7 +252,7 @@ static struct ref *parse_info_refs(struct discovery *heads)
 		if (data[i] == '\n') {
 			if (mid - start != 40)
 				die("%sinfo/refs not valid: is this a git repository?",
-				    url.buf);
+				    transport_anonymize_url(url.buf));

Looking at the code, I think we'd keep the trailing slash during the anonymization. Good.

remote-curl.c static struct discovery *discover_refs(const char *service, int for_push) · line 447

Quoted 7 lines
remote-curl.c +2 -1
@@ -442,17 +443,23 @@ static struct discovery *discover_refs(const char *service, int for_push)
 		break;
 	case HTTP_MISSING_TARGET:
 		show_http_message(&type, &charset, &buffer);
-		die("repository '%s' not found", url.buf);
+		die("repository '%s' not found",
+		    transport_anonymize_url(url.buf));

Sort of orthogonal to your patch, but these could probably stand to be marked for translation (I'm happy for that to come on top later, though).

remote-curl.c static struct discovery *discover_refs(const char *service, int for_push) · line 462

Quoted 7 lines
remote-curl.c +5 -2
-	if (options.verbosity && !starts_with(refs_url.buf, url.buf))
-		warning(_("redirecting to %s"), url.buf);
+	if (options.verbosity && !starts_with(refs_url.buf, url.buf)) {
+		char *u = transport_anonymize_url(url.buf);
+		warning(_("redirecting to %s"), u);
+		free(u);
+	}

Good attention to detail here.

-Peff

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Re: [PATCH 1/1] curl: anonymize URLs in error messages and warnings

Hi Peff,

Quoted 13 lines · Jeff King

remote-curl.c static struct discovery *discover_refs(const char *service, int for_push) · line 447

Quoted 7 lines · Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
remote-curl.c +2 -1
@@ -442,17 +443,23 @@ static struct discovery *discover_refs(const char *service, int for_push)
 		break;
 	case HTTP_MISSING_TARGET:
 		show_http_message(&type, &charset, &buffer);
-		die("repository '%s' not found", url.buf);
+		die("repository '%s' not found",
+		    transport_anonymize_url(url.buf));

Sort of orthogonal to your patch, but these could probably stand to be marked for translation (I'm happy for that to come on top later, though).

Good idea!

Ciao,
Dscho