Prompt for a username when an HTTP request 401s

When an HTTP request returns a 401, Git will currently fail with a
confusing message saying that it got a 401, which is not very
descriptive.

Currently if a user wants to use Git over HTTP, they have to use one
URL with the username in the URL (e.g. "http://user@host.com/repo.git")
for write access and another without the username for unauthenticated
read access (unless they want to be prompted for the password each
time). However, since the HTTP servers will return a 401 if an action
requires authentication, we can prompt for username and password if we
see this, allowing us to use a single URL for both purposes.

This patch changes http_request to prompt for the username and password,
then return HTTP_REAUTH so http_get_strbuf can try again.  If it gets
a 401 even when a user/pass is supplied, http_request will now return
HTTP_NOAUTH which remote_curl can then use to display a more
intelligent error message that is less confusing.

Signed-off-by: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/http.h b/http.h
index 5c9441c10..2dd03e88b 100644
--- a/http.h
+++ b/http.h
@@ -126,6 +126,8 @@ extern char *get_remote_object_url(const char *url, const char *hex,
 #define HTTP_MISSING_TARGET	1
 #define HTTP_ERROR		2
 #define HTTP_START_FAILED	3
+#define HTTP_REAUTH	4
+#define HTTP_NOAUTH	5
 
 /*
  * Requests an url and stores the result in a strbuf.