Re: crash in 1.4.2 and https

On 11/13/06, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn@gmail.com> wrote:

> What would happen if neon tries different auth methods while increasing
> the 'attempt' value each time? Would that maybe cause this kind of
> crash? Because as I understand, Subversion only calls
> svn_auth_first_credentials() if 'attempt' is zero, but it should call
> this for every 'new' auth method. I could be wrong here of course.]

I'm a bit confused here. It sounds like you're saying that both neon
and the subversion libraries each have independent, parallel
implementations of 'trying multiple auth methods'. If so, yes, that
can lead to bad things.

The design of subversion's libraries is such that different auth
methods are encapsulated in 'provider' vtables, and then when the RA
layer calls first_creds(), next_creds(), etc.... the different
providers are automatically attempted.

But, if neon has its *own* concept of trying multiple auth methods,
then yeah, that could result in some weird mis-use of svn_auth.h. I
don't remember that being the case, though...

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Received on Mon Nov 13 23:04:26 2006