On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 09:42:42PM -0600, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> Ian Schneider wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >My group has been happily using subversion for a bit, though we need to
> >integrate with a third party authentication system which plugs into apache
> >and uses cookies to store authentication tokens. This works great with a
> >browser (for read-only access) but fails in the CLI, as it seems that
> >subversion does not store cookies.
> >
> >I'm curious if this is possible. Thoughts?
>
> Cookies are entirely a web-browser thing, it seems. The svn client uses
> the neon library to speak HTTP. I don't think that library supports
> cookies, and I doubt Joe Orton is planning to add that support. I could
> be wrong, though. Joe?
neon does support cookies as Ben R says. The position of most DAV
client authors is that servers which require cookies to do HTTP
authentiation are not compliant with the HTTP auth protocol and should
not be supported.
Regards,
joe
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Received on Sat Feb 21 14:45:13 2004