Yes, let that be the end of it. Slight correction on "the best course", which
should be to document the work around in the book -- there will be plenty of
VS.Net + IIS6 users.
kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> 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.
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