src/transports/auth_ntlm.h


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Edward Thomson f0e693b1 2021-09-07T17:53:49 str: introduce `git_str` for internal, `git_buf` is external libgit2 has two distinct requirements that were previously solved by `git_buf`. We require: 1. A general purpose string class that provides a number of utility APIs for manipulating data (eg, concatenating, truncating, etc). 2. A structure that we can use to return strings to callers that they can take ownership of. By using a single class (`git_buf`) for both of these purposes, we have confused the API to the point that refactorings are difficult and reasoning about correctness is also difficult. Move the utility class `git_buf` to be called `git_str`: this represents its general purpose, as an internal string buffer class. The name also is an homage to Junio Hamano ("gitstr"). The public API remains `git_buf`, and has a much smaller footprint. It is generally only used as an "out" param with strict requirements that follow the documentation. (Exceptions exist for some legacy APIs to avoid breaking callers unnecessarily.) Utility functions exist to convert a user-specified `git_buf` to a `git_str` so that we can call internal functions, then converting it back again.
Edward Thomson 76fd406a 2019-12-26T16:37:01 http: send probe packets When we're authenticating with a connection-based authentication scheme (NTLM, Negotiate), we need to make sure that we're still connected between the initial GET where we did the authentication and the POST that we're about to send. Our keep-alive session may have not kept alive, but more likely, some servers do not authenticate the entire keep-alive connection and may have "forgotten" that we were authenticated, namely Apache and nginx. Send a "probe" packet, that is an HTTP POST request to the upload-pack or receive-pack endpoint, that consists of an empty git pkt ("0000"). If we're authenticated, we'll get a 200 back. If we're not, we'll get a 401 back, and then we'll resend that probe packet with the first step of our authentication (asking to start authentication with the given scheme). We expect _yet another_ 401 back, with the authentication challenge. Finally, we will send our authentication response with the actual POST data. This will allow us to authenticate without draining the POST data in the initial request that gets us a 401.
Edward Thomson 3192e3c9 2019-03-07T16:57:11 http: provide an NTLM authentication provider