From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: 27022@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27022: url-retrieve + .authinfo bug
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 10:46:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h879p4i7.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r2zgbw5u.fsf@pobox.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Mon, 22 May 2017 20:09:49 +0200")
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)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-26 8:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-22 18:09 bug#27022: url-retrieve + .authinfo bug Andy Wingo
2019-07-26 8:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-07-26 8:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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