Greg, can you comment on this? The truth is, I don't really
understand how proxies work in general. And I certainly don't
understand how they work in terms of neon<->apache traffic. Maybe
someone can explain?
Dale Thatcher <subversion@dalethatcher.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Below are my proposed changes to svn_ra.h to add proxy support into the
> library. I've only included the sections that have been modified.
>
> I've changed svn_ra_simple_password_authenticator_t to add a url parameter.
> This provides data that can be used to indicate the resource that
> authentication is being sought. This could be the remote host, proxy or for
> other schemes could be the key to unlock an RSA cert (file url) etc.
>
> There is also an addition to the callback table to request the proxy that
> should be used for a particular url.
>
> Comments please.
>
> thanks,
>
> - Dale Thatcher
>
>
> /* A protocol which needs a username and password (used by ra_dav)
> (matches type SVN_RA_AUTH_SIMPLE_PASSWORD above.) */
> typedef struct svn_ra_simple_password_authenticator_t
> {
> /* Get a username and password from the client. */
> svn_error_t *(*get_user_and_pass) (char *url,
> char **username,
> char **password,
> void *auth_baton,
> apr_pool_t *pool);
>
> /* If authentication was successful, tell the client to store the
> USERNAME or PASSWORD. If these routines are NULL, that means the
> client is unable (or unwilling) to store auth data. */
> svn_error_t *(*store_user_and_pass) (char *url,
> const char *username,
> const char *password,
> void *auth_baton);
>
> } svn_ra_simple_password_authenticator_t;
>
>
>
> /* A collection of callbacks implemented by libsvn_client which allows
> an RA layer to "pull" information from the client application, or
> possibly store information. libsvn_client passes this vtable to
> RA->open().
>
> Each routine takes a CALLBACK_BATON originally provided with the
> vtable. */
> typedef struct svn_ra_callbacks_t
> {
> /* Open a unique temporary file for writing in the working copy.
> This file will be automatically deleted when FP is closed. */
> svn_error_t *(*open_tmp_file) (apr_file_t **fp,
> void *callback_baton);
>
> /* Retrieve an AUTHENTICATOR/AUTH_BATON pair from the client,
> which represents the protocol METHOD. */
> svn_error_t *(*get_authenticator) (void **authenticator,
> void **auth_baton,
> apr_uint64_t method,
> void *callback_baton,
> apr_pool_t *pool);
>
> /* Retrieve the proxy that is to be used for the given URL. If no
> proxy is required either the callback can be NULL or a NULL proxyhost
> returned. */
> svn_error_t *(*get_proxy) (char *url
> char **proxyhost,
> int **proxyport,
> void *callback_baton,
> apr_pool_t *pool);
>
> } svn_ra_callbacks_t;
>
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