New server for the hostap.git repository

[Jouni Malinen]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 10:43:40AM +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> The old and to be removed URLs:
> 
> git://w1.fi/hostap.git
> http://w1.fi/hostap.git
> https://w1.fi/hostap.git
> http://w1.fi/cgit/
> https://w1.fi/cgit/
> 
> The new URLs that replace those:
> 
> git://git.w1.fi/hostap.git
> http://git.w1.fi/hostap.git
> https://git.w1.fi/hostap.git
> http://git.w1.fi/cgit/
> https://git.w1.fi/cgit/
> 
> In other words, the only change is for the server name from w1.fi to
> git.w1.fi.

Actually, those http URLs on git.w1.fi are now forcing redirection to
https, so they are not really good options to use. Furthermore, there
does not seem to be any good reason to maintain the git protocol for
this anymore since the https option provides same level of
functionality. In other words, please update all git operations to use
the https://git.w1.fi/hostap.git URL. All the other http/https options
do already redirect to that and instead of trying to get the git
protocol case (git://..) move handled cleanly, I'll just terminate that
service completely to keep things simpler in the future.

> Not that I think anyone who this next part would be applicable to would
> read or follow this, but I guess I could anyway mention here that I
> consider web crawlers that do not follow robots.txt to be misbehaving
> and if they flood the server with pointless requests through cgit, I'm
> likely to start limiting access to it. It is pointless to try to fetch
> every different possible commit and diff through cgit for various LLM
> training purposes (etc.) when that same information could be efficiently
> extracted from a cloned repository directly.

I added protection for this using anubis on git.w1.fi. That did get rid
of more than 99% of requests and excessive load on the server. This
should not have any impact to git operations and most cgit uses (other
than web crawlers, that is) should not see a significant impact. There
are some constraints like having to support JavaScript, but hopefully
this is not too much an issue nowadays. Anyway, do let me know if you
think this is causing problems for something that used to work
previously.
 
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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA