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Add the value of the WWW-Authenticate response header to credential
requests. Credential helpers that understand and support HTTP
authentication and authorization can use this standard header (RFC 2616
Section 14.47 [1]) to generate valid credentials.

WWW-Authenticate headers can contain information pertaining to the
authority, authentication mechanism, or extra parameters/scopes that are
required.

The current I/O format for credential helpers only allows for unique
names for properties/attributes, so in order to transmit multiple header
values (with a specific order) we introduce a new convention whereby a
C-style array syntax is used in the property name to denote multiple
ordered values for the same property.

In this case we send multiple `wwwauth[]` properties where the order
that the repeated attributes appear in the conversation reflects the
order that the WWW-Authenticate headers appeared in the HTTP response.

Add a set of tests to exercise the HTTP authentication header parsing
and the interop with credential helpers. Credential helpers will receive
WWW-Authenticate information in credential requests.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2616#section-14.47

Signed-off-by: Matthew John Cheetham <mjcheetham@outlook.com>
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19 changes: 18 additions & 1 deletion Documentation/git-credential.txt
Expand Up @@ -113,7 +113,13 @@ separated by an `=` (equals) sign, followed by a newline.
The key may contain any bytes except `=`, newline, or NUL. The value may
contain any bytes except newline or NUL.

In both cases, all bytes are treated as-is (i.e., there is no quoting,
Attributes with keys that end with C-style array brackets `[]` can have
multiple values. Each instance of a multi-valued attribute forms an
ordered list of values - the order of the repeated attributes defines
the order of the values. An empty multi-valued attribute (`key[]=\n`)
acts to clear any previous entries and reset the list.

In all cases, all bytes are treated as-is (i.e., there is no quoting,
and one cannot transmit a value with newline or NUL in it). The list of
attributes is terminated by a blank line or end-of-file.

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Components which are missing from the URL (e.g., there is no
username in the example above) will be left unset.

`wwwauth[]`::

When an HTTP response is received by Git that includes one or more
'WWW-Authenticate' authentication headers, these will be passed by Git
to credential helpers.
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Each 'WWW-Authenticate' header value is passed as a multi-valued
attribute 'wwwauth[]', where the order of the attributes is the same as
they appear in the HTTP response. This attribute is 'one-way' from Git
to pass additional information to credential helpers.

Unrecognised attributes are silently discarded.

GIT
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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions credential.c
Expand Up @@ -270,6 +270,9 @@ void credential_write(const struct credential *c, FILE *fp)
credential_write_item(fp, "path", c->path, 0);
credential_write_item(fp, "username", c->username, 0);
credential_write_item(fp, "password", c->password, 0);
for (size_t i = 0; i < c->wwwauth_headers.nr; i++)
credential_write_item(fp, "wwwauth[]", c->wwwauth_headers.v[i],
0);
}

static int run_credential_helper(struct credential *c,
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242 changes: 242 additions & 0 deletions t/t5563-simple-http-auth.sh
Expand Up @@ -69,6 +69,248 @@ test_expect_success 'access using basic auth' '
expect_credential_query get <<-EOF &&
protocol=http
host=$HTTPD_DEST
wwwauth[]=Basic realm="example.com"
EOF
expect_credential_query store <<-EOF
protocol=http
host=$HTTPD_DEST
username=alice
password=secret-passwd
EOF
'

test_expect_success 'access using basic auth invalid credentials' '
test_when_finished "per_test_cleanup" &&
set_credential_reply get <<-EOF &&
username=baduser
password=wrong-passwd
EOF
# Basic base64(alice:secret-passwd)
cat >"$HTTPD_ROOT_PATH/custom-auth.valid" <<-EOF &&
Basic YWxpY2U6c2VjcmV0LXBhc3N3ZA==
EOF
cat >"$HTTPD_ROOT_PATH/custom-auth.challenge" <<-EOF &&
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="example.com"
EOF
test_config_global credential.helper test-helper &&
test_must_fail git ls-remote "$HTTPD_URL/custom_auth/repo.git" &&
expect_credential_query get <<-EOF &&
protocol=http
host=$HTTPD_DEST
wwwauth[]=Basic realm="example.com"
EOF
expect_credential_query erase <<-EOF
protocol=http
host=$HTTPD_DEST
username=baduser
password=wrong-passwd
wwwauth[]=Basic realm="example.com"
EOF
'

test_expect_success 'access using basic auth with extra challenges' '
test_when_finished "per_test_cleanup" &&
set_credential_reply get <<-EOF &&
username=alice
password=secret-passwd
EOF
# Basic base64(alice:secret-passwd)
cat >"$HTTPD_ROOT_PATH/custom-auth.valid" <<-EOF &&
Basic YWxpY2U6c2VjcmV0LXBhc3N3ZA==
EOF
cat >"$HTTPD_ROOT_PATH/custom-auth.challenge" <<-EOF &&
WWW-Authenticate: FooBar param1="value1" param2="value2"
WWW-Authenticate: Bearer authorize_uri="id.example.com" p=1 q=0
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="example.com"
EOF
test_config_global credential.helper test-helper &&
git ls-remote "$HTTPD_URL/custom_auth/repo.git" &&
expect_credential_query get <<-EOF &&
protocol=http
host=$HTTPD_DEST
wwwauth[]=FooBar param1="value1" param2="value2"
wwwauth[]=Bearer authorize_uri="id.example.com" p=1 q=0
wwwauth[]=Basic realm="example.com"
EOF
expect_credential_query store <<-EOF
protocol=http
host=$HTTPD_DEST
username=alice
password=secret-passwd
EOF
'

test_expect_success 'access using basic auth mixed-case wwwauth header name' '
test_when_finished "per_test_cleanup" &&
set_credential_reply get <<-EOF &&
username=alice
password=secret-passwd
EOF
# Basic base64(alice:secret-passwd)
cat >"$HTTPD_ROOT_PATH/custom-auth.valid" <<-EOF &&
Basic YWxpY2U6c2VjcmV0LXBhc3N3ZA==
EOF
cat >"$HTTPD_ROOT_PATH/custom-auth.challenge" <<-EOF &&
www-authenticate: foobar param1="value1" param2="value2"
WWW-AUTHENTICATE: BEARER authorize_uri="id.example.com" p=1 q=0
WwW-aUtHeNtIcAtE: baSiC realm="example.com"
EOF
test_config_global credential.helper test-helper &&
git ls-remote "$HTTPD_URL/custom_auth/repo.git" &&
expect_credential_query get <<-EOF &&
protocol=http
host=$HTTPD_DEST
wwwauth[]=foobar param1="value1" param2="value2"
wwwauth[]=BEARER authorize_uri="id.example.com" p=1 q=0
wwwauth[]=baSiC realm="example.com"
EOF
expect_credential_query store <<-EOF
protocol=http
host=$HTTPD_DEST
username=alice
password=secret-passwd
EOF
'

test_expect_success 'access using basic auth with wwwauth header continuations' '
test_when_finished "per_test_cleanup" &&
set_credential_reply get <<-EOF &&
username=alice
password=secret-passwd
EOF
# Basic base64(alice:secret-passwd)
cat >"$HTTPD_ROOT_PATH/custom-auth.valid" <<-EOF &&
Basic YWxpY2U6c2VjcmV0LXBhc3N3ZA==
EOF
# Note that leading and trailing whitespace is important to correctly
# simulate a continuation/folded header.
cat >"$HTTPD_ROOT_PATH/custom-auth.challenge" <<-EOF &&
WWW-Authenticate: FooBar param1="value1"
param2="value2"
WWW-Authenticate: Bearer authorize_uri="id.example.com"
p=1
q=0
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="example.com"
EOF
test_config_global credential.helper test-helper &&
git ls-remote "$HTTPD_URL/custom_auth/repo.git" &&
expect_credential_query get <<-EOF &&
protocol=http
host=$HTTPD_DEST
wwwauth[]=FooBar param1="value1" param2="value2"
wwwauth[]=Bearer authorize_uri="id.example.com" p=1 q=0
wwwauth[]=Basic realm="example.com"
EOF
expect_credential_query store <<-EOF
protocol=http
host=$HTTPD_DEST
username=alice
password=secret-passwd
EOF
'

test_expect_success 'access using basic auth with wwwauth header empty continuations' '
test_when_finished "per_test_cleanup" &&
set_credential_reply get <<-EOF &&
username=alice
password=secret-passwd
EOF
# Basic base64(alice:secret-passwd)
cat >"$HTTPD_ROOT_PATH/custom-auth.valid" <<-EOF &&
Basic YWxpY2U6c2VjcmV0LXBhc3N3ZA==
EOF
CHALLENGE="$HTTPD_ROOT_PATH/custom-auth.challenge" &&
# Note that leading and trailing whitespace is important to correctly
# simulate a continuation/folded header.
printf "">$CHALLENGE &&
printf "WWW-Authenticate: FooBar param1=\"value1\"\r\n" >$CHALLENGE &&
printf " \r\n" >>$CHALLENGE &&
printf " param2=\"value2\"\r\n" >>$CHALLENGE &&
printf "WWW-Authenticate: Bearer authorize_uri=\"id.example.com\"\r\n" >>$CHALLENGE &&
printf " p=1\r\n" >>$CHALLENGE &&
printf " \r\n" >>$CHALLENGE &&
printf " q=0\r\n" >>$CHALLENGE &&
printf "WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=\"example.com\"\r\n" >>$CHALLENGE &&
test_config_global credential.helper test-helper &&
git ls-remote "$HTTPD_URL/custom_auth/repo.git" &&
expect_credential_query get <<-EOF &&
protocol=http
host=$HTTPD_DEST
wwwauth[]=FooBar param1="value1" param2="value2"
wwwauth[]=Bearer authorize_uri="id.example.com" p=1 q=0
wwwauth[]=Basic realm="example.com"
EOF
expect_credential_query store <<-EOF
protocol=http
host=$HTTPD_DEST
username=alice
password=secret-passwd
EOF
'

test_expect_success 'access using basic auth with wwwauth header mixed line-endings' '
test_when_finished "per_test_cleanup" &&
set_credential_reply get <<-EOF &&
username=alice
password=secret-passwd
EOF
# Basic base64(alice:secret-passwd)
cat >"$HTTPD_ROOT_PATH/custom-auth.valid" <<-EOF &&
Basic YWxpY2U6c2VjcmV0LXBhc3N3ZA==
EOF
CHALLENGE="$HTTPD_ROOT_PATH/custom-auth.challenge" &&
# Note that leading and trailing whitespace is important to correctly
# simulate a continuation/folded header.
printf "">$CHALLENGE &&
printf "WWW-Authenticate: FooBar param1=\"value1\"\r\n" >$CHALLENGE &&
printf " \r\n" >>$CHALLENGE &&
printf "\tparam2=\"value2\"\r\n" >>$CHALLENGE &&
printf "WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=\"example.com\"" >>$CHALLENGE &&
test_config_global credential.helper test-helper &&
git ls-remote "$HTTPD_URL/custom_auth/repo.git" &&
expect_credential_query get <<-EOF &&
protocol=http
host=$HTTPD_DEST
wwwauth[]=FooBar param1="value1" param2="value2"
wwwauth[]=Basic realm="example.com"
EOF
expect_credential_query store <<-EOF
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