Re: ra_svn tunneling URL syntax

Greg Hudson wrote:

>I've identified four options which I think I could live with:
>
> (1) svn:ext://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk
> (2) svn://svn.collab.net:ext/repos/svn/trunk
> (3) svn://svn.collab.net:0/repos/svn/trunk
> (4) svnext://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk
>

Why don't we just do the obvious thing and define the "svn" scheme like
this:

    svn:/<agent>/<user>@<host>:<port>/<url-path>

If the <agent> field is empty, this becomes a "URL scheme that involves
the direct use of an IP-based protocol", which is exactly what we want.
Otherwise, <agent> defines the tunnelling/proxying/etc. method, the
details of which could be defined in the ~/.subversion/servers file, or
in an environment variable, or wherever.

I can't find anything in RFC 1738 about hierarchic schemes having to
start with two slashes.

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Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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