Re: cert caching touch-ups

Tobias Ringstrom wrote:

> However, I am not perfectly happy with the current implementation for
> mainly one reason. The current system was designed so that Subversion
> would behave like a web browser, i.e. you can only temporarily ignore
> an expired cert or a cert with wrong hostname. The problem is that in
> a browser, temporary means "as long as the browser is open", which can
> be a long time. Subversion on the other hand always runs for a quite
> short time, and therefore you will see that prompt quite often. The
> user experience will thus be that Subversion is much more annoying
> than a web browser.

Let's not forget that Subversion is more than the command-line client. I
can easily imagine that a GUI will run a lot longer. I'd hesitate to
tweak a library function's behaviour only to better support the command
line client.

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