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| author | Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> | 2014-01-16 11:39:17 +0100 |
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| committer | Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> | 2014-01-16 12:13:39 +0100 |
| commit | b826537cb4aa2358027ffcb1dd6a87274734e962 (patch) | |
| tree | 7c749c66d868cb996828d2b65a4bede58b5ebd62 /cgitrc.5.txt | |
| parent | auth: add basic authentication filter framework (diff) | |
| download | cgit-pink-b826537cb4aa2358027ffcb1dd6a87274734e962.tar.gz cgit-pink-b826537cb4aa2358027ffcb1dd6a87274734e962.zip | |
authentication: use hidden form instead of referer
This also gives us some CSRF protection. Note that we make use of the hmac to protect the redirect value. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/cgitrc.5.txt b/cgitrc.5.txt index c45dbd3..682d8bb 100644 --- a/cgitrc.5.txt +++ b/cgitrc.5.txt @@ -662,7 +662,8 @@ auth filter:: the http cookie and return a 0 if it is invalid or 1 if it is invalid, in the exit code / close function. If the filter action is "authenticate-post", this filter receives POST'd parameters on - standard input, and should write to output one or more "Set-Cookie" + standard input, and should write a complete CGI request, preferably + with a 302 redirect, and write to output one or more "Set-Cookie" HTTP headers, each followed by a newline. Please see `filters/simple-authentication.lua` for a clear example |