On June 14, 2018 11:15 AM, Jeff King wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 10:13:42AM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > > > > I know that other git server environments like github support that > > > on client side by allowing tokens to be used as usernames in a BASIC > > > authentication flow. We could do the same but I am asking whether > > > there is also a way to transport tokens in a standard conform > > > "Authorization: Bearer ..." Header field. > > > > There isn't any support for Bearer authentication in Git. For HTTP, > > we use libcurl, which doesn't provide this natively. While it could > > in theory be added, it would require some reworking of the auth code. > > > > You are, of course, welcome to send a patch. > > If it's just a custom Authorization header, we should be able to support it > with existing curl versions without _too_ much effort. > > I think there are probably two possible directions: > > 1. add a special "bearer" command line option, etc, as a string > > 2. add a boolean option to send the existing "password" field as a > "bearer" header > > I suspect (2) would fit in with the existing code better, as the special case > would mostly be limited to the manner in which we feed the credential to > curl. And you could probably just set a config option for "this url's auth > will > be oauth2", and use the existing mechanisms for providing the password. > > We'd maybe also want to allow credential helpers to say "by the way, this > password should be treated as a bearer token", for cases where you might > sometimes use oauth2 and sometimes a real password.
Be aware that there are 4 (ish) flavours of OAuth2 the last time I checked. It is important to know which one (or all) to implement. The embedded form is probably the easiest to comprehend - and the least implemented from my research. More common OAuth2 instances use a third-man website to hold session keys and authorization. That may be problematic for a whole bunch of us who do not play in that world. Cheers, Randall -- Brief whoami: NonStop developer since approximately NonStop(211288444200000000) UNIX developer since approximately 421664400 -- In my real life, I talk too much.
