* bug#27022: url-retrieve + .authinfo bug
@ 2017-05-22 18:09 Andy Wingo
2019-07-26 8:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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From: Andy Wingo @ 2017-05-22 18:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 27022
Hi,
If you try to do a url-retrieve over HTTP on a URL that requires HTTP
basic authentication, and you have an .authinfo file, and that .authinfo
contains an incorrect login, then Emacs will keep appending the same
Authorization: header to the request -- over and over, making the
request larger and larger, with no stop condition. Eventually nginx
produces a "400 Bad Request" error because there were too many headers.
Emacs should instead error after the first attempt at authentication
fails.
$ emacs --version
GNU Emacs 25.2.1
Andy
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* bug#27022: url-retrieve + .authinfo bug
2017-05-22 18:09 bug#27022: url-retrieve + .authinfo bug Andy Wingo
@ 2019-07-26 8:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-26 8:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2019-07-26 8:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andy Wingo; +Cc: 27022
Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:
> If you try to do a url-retrieve over HTTP on a URL that requires HTTP
> basic authentication, and you have an .authinfo file, and that .authinfo
> contains an incorrect login, then Emacs will keep appending the same
> Authorization: header to the request -- over and over, making the
> request larger and larger, with no stop condition. Eventually nginx
> produces a "400 Bad Request" error because there were too many headers.
>
> Emacs should instead error after the first attempt at authentication
> fails.
I'm able to reproduce this with this in my .authinfo file:
machine jigsaw.w3.org:443 login guest password wrong
and then:
(url-retrieve "https://jigsaw.w3.org/HTTP/Basic/" #'ignore)
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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* bug#27022: url-retrieve + .authinfo bug
2019-07-26 8:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
@ 2019-07-26 8:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2019-07-26 8:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andy Wingo; +Cc: 27022
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> If you try to do a url-retrieve over HTTP on a URL that requires HTTP
>> basic authentication, and you have an .authinfo file, and that .authinfo
>> contains an incorrect login, then Emacs will keep appending the same
>> Authorization: header to the request -- over and over, making the
>> request larger and larger, with no stop condition. Eventually nginx
>> produces a "400 Bad Request" error because there were too many headers.
>>
>> Emacs should instead error after the first attempt at authentication
>> fails.
>
> I'm able to reproduce this with this in my .authinfo file:
>
> machine jigsaw.w3.org:443 login guest password wrong
>
> and then:
>
> (url-retrieve "https://jigsaw.w3.org/HTTP/Basic/" #'ignore)
And this should now be fixed on the Emacs trunk.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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