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From: "Georgios Kontaxis" <geko1702+commits@99rst.org>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Georgios Kontaxis via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,
	"\"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason\"" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] gitweb: redacted e-mail addresses feature.
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 23:14:14 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14d3cda766b0212ca9d8204eba35aa4d.squirrel@mail.kodaksys.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqmtuw884f.fsf@gitster.g>

> "Georgios Kontaxis" <geko1702+commits@99rst.org> writes:
>
>>> ... so I doubt
>>> the wisdom of munging the patch part at all.
>>>
>>> I may be sympathetic to the cause of the patch, but, I do not agree
>>> with its execution in this iteration of the patch.
>>>
>> I see your point.
>>
>> It seems hiding e-mail addresses should be limited to the commit
>> message,
>> i.e., stop at the "---" line.
>
> I doubt it makes sense to redact anything in the 'patch' view at
> all, actually.  What kind of URL does the crawler need to formulate
> and what pieces of information (like commit object names or branch
> names) does it need to fill in the URL to get a series of patches
> out of gitweb?  As long as it takes more effort than running "git
> clone" against the repository, the crawler would not have much
> incentive to crawl and harvest addresses from the 'patch' pages, and
> even in the log message part, the downsides of butchering the
> payload would outweigh the "privacy benefit", I would have to say.
>
No effort at all I would say.
E..g, somehow the web crawler gets to git.kernel.org.
It then follows every link, eventually arriving at a commitdiff page.
It then follows every link, which includes the URL for the patch output.
See how "wget --mirror" behaves for instance.

Just to clarify, my goal is not to stop someone who wants to extract
e-mail address from git.kernel.org specifically.
They can just "git clone" the repositories and grep through the logs.
My goal is to stop generic crawlers (pretty much "wget --mirror | grep"
scripts) from making their way to the logs.

> Quite honestly, if a site claims to offer a 'patch' download UI but
> returns corrupt data back, I would say it is much worse than not
> offering the service at all.  Perhaps disabling the 'patch' feature
> in repositories that enable 'privacy' feature may be a much better
> approach.
>
Good point. I think I'll try that.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-21 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-20 23:42 [PATCH] gitweb: redacted e-mail addresses feature Georgios Kontaxis via GitGitGadget
2021-03-21  0:42 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-21  1:27   ` brian m. carlson
2021-03-21  3:30   ` Georgios Kontaxis
2021-03-21  3:32 ` [PATCH v2] " Georgios Kontaxis via GitGitGadget
2021-03-21 17:28   ` [PATCH v3] " Georgios Kontaxis via GitGitGadget
2021-03-21 18:26     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-21 18:48       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-21 19:48       ` Georgios Kontaxis
2021-03-21 18:42     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-21 18:57       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-21 19:05         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-21 20:07       ` Georgios Kontaxis
2021-03-21 22:17         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-21 23:14           ` Georgios Kontaxis [this message]
2021-03-22  4:25             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-22  6:57     ` [PATCH v4] " Georgios Kontaxis via GitGitGadget
2021-03-22 18:32       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-22 18:58         ` Georgios Kontaxis
2021-03-28  1:41           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-28 21:43             ` Georgios Kontaxis
2021-03-28 22:35               ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-23  4:27         ` Georgios Kontaxis
2021-03-27  3:56       ` [PATCH v5] " Georgios Kontaxis via GitGitGadget
2021-03-28 23:26         ` [PATCH v6] " Georgios Kontaxis via GitGitGadget
2021-03-29 20:00           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-31 21:14             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-06  0:56             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-08 22:43           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-08 22:51             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-29  1:47         ` [PATCH v5] " Eric Wong
2021-03-29  3:17           ` Georgios Kontaxis
2021-04-08 17:16             ` Eric Wong
2021-04-08 21:04               ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-08 21:19                 ` Eric Wong
2021-04-08 22:45                   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-08 22:54                     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-21  6:00 ` [PATCH] " Junio C Hamano
2021-03-21  6:18   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-21  6:43   ` Georgios Kontaxis
2021-03-21 16:55     ` Junio C Hamano

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