Re: Request: make the user agent string a define

On Jan 8, 2005, at 11:22 AM, SteveKing wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A feature which is requested often on the TSVN mailing list is the
> ability to check the client version in a pre-commit hook.
> (the latest request was because they wanted to reject commits from
> TSVN clients which don't have the bugtraq features implemented yet)
>

Hm, isn't considered bad design for clients and servers to
accept/reject one another based solely on version number exchange?

I thought the "best practice" was for client and server to perform
feature negotiation. For example, that's what the http OPTIONS request
is all about. And I suspect that svnserve has something similar, no?

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Received on Sat Jan 8 18:58:41 2005