bower register https/ssh fails

[sindresorhus]

When trying to register a package using an https url, Bower fails with a generic error message.

bower register screenfull https://github.com/sindresorhus/screenfull.js.git
bower error Incorrect format

This works fine however:

bower register screenfull git://github.com/sindresorhus/screenfull.js.git
registered screenfull to git://github.com/sindresorhus/screenfull.js.git

Sidenote: The error message is not very descriptive either, at first I thought it was the package

[asbjornenge]

Since this hasn't been fixed for 5 month's I hope it's a bit more severe than just fixing the regexp in validate? :-P

def validate
  super
  errors.add(:url, 'is not correct format') if url !~ /^git:\/\//
end

[sindresorhus]

That should do it.

[benschwarz]

Can we also include "a better error message" as part of the scope of this?

"Please use git:// or https:// urls" would be a huge improvement.

[satazor]

The ssh and https protocols can reference public and private repositories. One cannot simply allow registration without actually attempting to fetch them. If it fails with an authentication failure it means it's private. Otherwise it's public. @danheberden perhaps we need to include this in the server rewrite.

[seancurtis]

@danheberden @satazor is there any eta on when this will be fixed? I have a package on Bitbucket I want to register but am unable to because of this bug :(

[mingos777]

@seancurtis Welcome to the club :/

[seancurtis]

@danheberden @benschwarz @satazor is there an update on this? I'd really love to be able to publish my Fancy File Input (https://bitbucket.org/atlassianlabs/fancy-file-input/) component to Bower.

[benschwarz]

@sheerun any thoughts on how bitbucket repos play into auth?

[sheerun]

They apparently don't support git:// prefix, and when trying to register https:// version I get:

bower register fancy-file-input https://bitbucket.org/atlassianlabs/fancy-file-input.git
bower                       EINVFORMAT The registry only accepts URLs starting with git://

Why not allow https urls?

[ikari-pl]

So... we're never gonna be able to register a bitbucket public repo?

[JasonBerry]

… or any other host that doesn't support the Git protocol.

[cheshrkat]

Just adding a +1 to supporting hosts-other-than-github ;)