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1 files changed, 34 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/http-fetch.c b/http-fetch.c
index de5fc44..259292d 100644
--- a/http-fetch.c
+++ b/http-fetch.c
@@ -559,9 +559,36 @@ static void process_alternates_response(void *callback_data)
char *target = NULL;
char *path;
if (data[i] == '/') {
- serverlen = strchr(base + 8, '/') - base;
- okay = 1;
+ /* This counts
+ * http://git.host/pub/scm/linux.git/
+ * -----------here^
+ * so memcpy(dst, base, serverlen) will
+ * copy up to "...git.host".
+ */
+ const char *colon_ss = strstr(base,"://");
+ if (colon_ss) {
+ serverlen = (strchr(colon_ss + 3, '/')
+ - base);
+ okay = 1;
+ }
} else if (!memcmp(data + i, "../", 3)) {
+ /* Relative URL; chop the corresponding
+ * number of subpath from base (and ../
+ * from data), and concatenate the result.
+ *
+ * The code first drops ../ from data, and
+ * then drops one ../ from data and one path
+ * from base. IOW, one extra ../ is dropped
+ * from data than path is dropped from base.
+ *
+ * This is not wrong. The alternate in
+ * http://git.host/pub/scm/linux.git/
+ * to borrow from
+ * http://git.host/pub/scm/linus.git/
+ * is ../../linus.git/objects/. You need
+ * two ../../ to borrow from your direct
+ * neighbour.
+ */
i += 3;
serverlen = strlen(base);
while (i + 2 < posn &&
@@ -583,11 +610,13 @@ static void process_alternates_response(void *callback_data)
okay = 1;
}
}
- /* skip 'objects' at end */
+ /* skip "objects\n" at end */
if (okay) {
target = xmalloc(serverlen + posn - i - 6);
- strlcpy(target, base, serverlen);
- strlcpy(target + serverlen, data + i, posn - i - 6);
+ memcpy(target, base, serverlen);
+ memcpy(target + serverlen, data + i,
+ posn - i - 7);
+ target[serverlen + posn - i - 7] = 0;
if (get_verbosely)
fprintf(stderr,
"Also look at %s\n", target);