Thanks, Nick. IMHO, that's the end of it. Since there's a
workaround, albeit an insecure one, our best course is to do nothing.
(This is unrelated to possible future replacements of .svn/ with
something else, of course; that's not driven by the IIS6 bug.)
-Karl
nick vajberg <nickvajberg@yahoo.dk> writes:
> I see a lot of confusion regarding VS.NET 200x and the
> ".svn" directories. While I hate the .svn directories
> in general, VS.NET have absolutely no problem with
> them. Read along.
>
> The "problem" is IIS6 which M$ patched to disallow
> paths containing dots and they did so for security
> reasons (...oh my, what a hack). So waiting for
> Whidbey won't do any good.
>
> Now, this is only the DEFAULT behaviour and can be
> easily worked around (as with other M$ security
> patches ;-)
>
> The first thing to try is enabling parent path
> navigation:
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=332117
>
> If that doesn't work, then get UrlScan 2.5 from
> Microsoft and configure it with AllowDotInPath=1 in
> the ini-file.
>
> UrlScan is here:
> (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=23D18937-DD7E-4613-9928-7F94EF1C902A&displaylang=en)
>
> NEVER EVER use any of the two suggestions above in
> Internet-production environments.
>
> That said, I hope Subversion will someday have
> something better than the .svn directories. They are
> eating my hard drive and driving my tools nuts.
>
> My suggestions is: Do NOT add support for "_svn". Some
> tools will probably have problem with those too.
> Rather, focus on replacing the entire .svn scheme with
> something less insane.
>
> Thanks.
>
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