[Yum-devel] enable yum to pass http data to repository

[Bryan Mills]

David Lutterkort wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 18:13 -0500, Bryan Mills wrote:
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>>This is a patch to enable yum to pass http data to the yum repository.  
>>Thanks to the recent changes in urlgrabber this is easy.
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>>My need was to enable secure access to a local yum repository.
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>If I understand your patch right, the http_data is used to send request
>parameters to the server; how about changing it so that you can provide
>a base url with request parameters, i.e., make it so that yum
>understands a URL of the form
>http://server.example.com/path?login=bryan&password=passwd
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The question in this case would be should I do a POST or GET?  I think 
both syntax should be available so maybe the scheme you suggest would be 
GET and I would rename my extra config parameter to http_post_data or 
something like that.

>The sticky part is to make sure that yum properly appends a relative
>portion to the base url (e.g., in Repository.get), i.e. that the
>relative part gets put into the base URL before the params.
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urlparse.urlsplit can do that for us.  Then just feed everything but the 
query and fragment in as the base url.

If we implement this method as a GET then the tricky part will be 
appending the query and fragment pieces onto the end of each request url.

>That way, there's no need to introduce a new config param, and you can
>use these types of URLs in mirrorlists, too.
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Agreed.

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>>A similar thing should be done to enable http authentication but that 
>>involves a bit more work.
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>That seems to work already if you specify the URL as
>  http://user:passwd@server.example.com/path
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Duh, forgot that urlgrabber already supported that.

-bryan

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