Re: pre-revprop-change hook problems

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 15:54 +0100, Julian Foad wrote:
> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> > That's probably because the user is performing the action anonymously.
> > It means you've misconfigured your server -- it should be sending an
> > authentication challenge, and it isn't.
> >
> > Granted, if no user is available, perhaps we should call the hook with
> > "anonymous" as the 3rd argument, or something...?
>
> Ugh! Software should NEVER fill in an empty field with text describing that it
> was empty (except perhaps right at the point of displaying it). Haven't you
> seen all those web pages with titles like "The title goes here", and emails
> with a subject line of "No subject", for instance? Please excuse my outburst :-)
>
> It should be the empty string, obviously. Is that impossible to do under MS
> Windows?

Is USER the only argument that may not exist?
If so move it's order in the argument list to the last position.

Chris

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