http: allow providing extra headers for http requests

Add a way for callers to request that extra headers be included when
making http requests.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
index 32d33261c98cce2d5fd25c07a503654a3d5d2e52..a4c16a91e664ece21d4541c2cb5d0fce2f59b959 100644 (file)
--- a/http.c
+++ b/http.c
@@ -1723,6 +1723,14 @@ static int http_request(const char *url,
 
        headers = curl_slist_append(headers, buf.buf);
 
+       /* Add additional headers here */
+       if (options && options->extra_headers) {
+               const struct string_list_item *item;
+               for_each_string_list_item(item, options->extra_headers) {
+                       headers = curl_slist_append(headers, item->string);
+               }
+       }
+
        curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_URL, url);
        curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, headers);
        curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "gzip");

diff --git a/http.h b/http.h
index f7bd3b26b0da70e44402579e4912a1b20dcef16e..4df4a25e1abc232c27f1b00ba0a97b05a689db2e 100644 (file)
--- a/http.h
+++ b/http.h
@@ -172,6 +172,13 @@ struct http_get_options {
         * for details.
         */
        struct strbuf *base_url;
+
+       /*
+        * If not NULL, contains additional HTTP headers to be sent with the
+        * request. The strings in the list must not be freed until after the
+        * request has completed.
+        */
+       struct string_list *extra_headers;
 };
 
 /* Return values for http_get_*() */