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Re: cert caching touch-ups

From: Branko ÄŒibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: 2003-09-23 21:43:59 CEST

mark benedetto king wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:21:16PM +0200, Branko ??ibej wrote:
>
>
>>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.
>>
>>
>>
>
>Also, the svnagent project intends to solve exactly this problem;
>no need to address it in svn itself.
>
>
Ah yes, thanks for the reminder. +1 for doing this elsewhere, -0.6931
for doing it in the svn libraries.

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