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Re: Why not WebDAV (was Re: first impressions...)

From: Sean Russell <ser_at_germane-software.com>
Date: 2002-01-26 09:56:31 CET

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Hi,

I'm a member of the unwashed masses, so forgive me if I make any obvious
mistakes. I would like to jump in with an observation or two that don't
detract from Greg's points:

On Saturday 26 January 2002 08:09, Greg Hudson wrote:
> * builtin web browsing of the repository
> * DAV-based browsing
>
> These qualify as "cute, but not part of our charter." Built-in

I'd just like to point out that if you look at CVS, there are numerous web
gateways, and I'd guess that a majority of the CVS servers have one of these
installed. I've only seen one filesystem gateway, for Linux, and I've never
seen it installed. So I can see that getting web access for free would
influence the choice of back-ends.

Personally, I liked of the choice of DAV as a backend because I like open
Standards, and I dislike seeing every new application creating its own
communications protocol, when an existing protocol is perfectly suitable. I
also like being able to browse the repository with Cadaver when I break my
SVN client. But that's just an opinion.

> * sophisticated, broad authentication
>
> I find the HTTP-based authentication options somewhat lacking. TLS,
> CRAM-MD5 and BASIC don't really cover the range of options a site
> might be interested in.

Plus, there seems to be a problem with granularity, at the moment, as well,
although Greg Stein knows more about this than I do.

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