"Sander Striker" <striker@apache.org> writes:
> > From: sussman@collab.net [mailto:sussman@collab.net]
> > The INSTALL file, which describes how to build svn client and server,
> > discuss how to build zlib and ssl into both ends of the network. Do
> > we need to explain encryption and compression elsewhere, in more
> > general terms? Perhaps in the "design" section of the Handbook's
> > chapter 1?
>
> The INSTALL file doesn't mention the mod_deflate part IIRC. I can add that
> later on if noone beats me to it.
Cool.
But I think there's a bigger confusion here.
If you're a CVS user, you're used to thinking about the client always
being "in control" of communication. That is, you set your
authentication/encryption by hand: "use pserver", "use ssh", and so
on.
But SVN is a total reversal on this paradigm, because of HTTP. Now
the *server* is in control. If you want a certain kind of
authentication or encryption, then you set up your server exactly that
way. The client is challenged by the server, and it better know how
to respond. If the client can't do basic auth, or certificates, or
speak ssl to an https:// url or whatever... then no dice.
I think this idea should be described in the 'SVN for CVS Users'
appendix of the Handbook, no?
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Received on Fri Jul 26 00:21:32 2002