Re: mod_dav_svn backward compatibility broken?

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:
> But we can't retroactively change released clients. mbk, we need to
> come up with a solution here. Perhaps a different, more compatible
> way to marshal the UUID from server to client. We can't release a
> 0.19 server that chokes earlier clients. :-(

I'm not sure about "can't" (we can always warn people to upgrade
clients before servers, this being alpha and all). But it would sure
be nice to avoid it!

MBK, one solution might be to add a header to the client requests,
something like

   X-repository-uuid-accepted

...or whatever. The server would never send UUIDs unless this header
were present. But is this veering dangerously close to a full
features exchange, implying that we should come up with a more general
mechanism for that?

-K

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Received on Tue Mar 4 18:06:51 2003