On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 12:43:31PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Patrick Steinhardt <patrick.steinha...@elego.de> writes: > > > The URL matching function computes for two URLs whether they match not. > > The match is performed by splitting up the URL into different parts and > > then doing an exact comparison with the to-be-matched URL. > > > > The main user of `urlmatch` is the configuration subsystem. It allows to > > set certain configurations based on the URL which is being connected to > > via keys like `http.<url>.*`. A common use case for this is to set > > proxies for only some remotes which match the given URL. Unfortunately, > > having exact matches for all parts of the URL can become quite tedious > > in some setups. Imagine for example a corporate network where there are > > dozens or even hundreds of subdomains, which would have to be configured > > individually. > > > > This commit introduces the ability to use globbing in the host-part of > > the URLs. A user can simply specify a `*` as part of the host name to > > match all subdomains at this level. For example adding a configuration > > key `http.https://*.example.com.proxy` will match all subdomains of > > `https://example.com`. > > This is probably a useful improvement. > > Having said that, when I mentioned "glob", I meant to also support > something like this: > > https://www[1-4].ibm.com/
The problem with additional extended syntax like proposed by you is that we would indeed need an escaping mechanism here. '[]' are already allowed inside the host part to enable IPv6 hosts of the form 'https://[2001:0db8:]/', so the syntax is now ambiguous. So we have to be cautios which characters to enable for globbing syntax. As of now, I think we can only safely include '*' and '?' here without escaping mechanisms. If additional use cases come up we might still extend the syntax later on to allow for more special syntax. > And when people read "glob", that is what they expect. > > So calling this "the ability to use globbing" is misleading. > The last paragraph in the log message above needs a bit of > tweaking, perhaps like this: > > Allow users to write an asterisk '*' in place of any 'host' > or 'subdomain' label as part of the host name. For example, > "http.https://*.example.com.proxy"; sets "http.proxy" for all > direct subdomains of "https://example.com";, > e.g. "https://foo.example.com";, but not > "https://foo.bar.example.com";. > > Fortunately, your update to config.txt, which is facing the end > users, does not misuse the word and instead is explicit that the > only thing the matcher does is to match '*' to a single hierarchy. > It is clear that even http://www*.ibm.com/ is not supported from > the description, which is good. I agree that globbing is the wrong word here. I'll swap in "wildcard" where applicable. I'll send a version 4 later on. Thanks again for your feedback and improvements. Regards Patrick
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