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Re: Feature request: Disable ssl prompting in "servers" for better security

From: Kenneth Porter <shiva_at_sewingwitch.com>
Date: 2004-12-21 03:22:20 CET

--On Tuesday, December 21, 2004 2:13 AM +0000 Tom Martin
<tommartin687@hotmail.com> wrote:

> it seems that there is a difference of subversion to many other
> applications: With subversion you typically have much more sessions than
> with other applications. For example, when using ssh you typically login,
> and then have a longer session. When using svn, every single svn command
> is a new session. This makes it much more likely to simply click warning
> messages away.

How is this different from connecting to your bank over HTTPS? Every page
is a new connection. Subversion should provide no more protection against
changing host fingerprints than a web browser would.

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