Re: Yet more DAV bugs

Thanks for looking into this.

Lieven Govaerts <svnlgo_at_mobsol.be> writes:

> I've tested get_file_dir over ra_serf, and found that - unlike svnserve
> - mod_dav_svn doesn't care if you're asking directory information
> (PROPFIND allprop Depth:1) on a file. Which means that ra_serf doesn't
> know anything was wrong.

I can understand some people want to support things like this for
compatibility for MICROS~1 Web folders or whatever. But we
mustn't allow such side features to compromise svn itself.

> Now we can correct this by adding an extra check to see of the directory
> is really a directory. AFAIC the extra cost of the PROPFIND request to
> the server is not worth it. Also, there's a nice workaround: if you
> don't know if you're handling a file or a directory, use svn_ra_check_path.

Extra round trips are no good, whether above or below the svn_ra
hood. Right now, I'm issuing get_files with stupid code to try
to figure out if it was a directory and we're using neon; for
serf, which proceeds to write some HTML error garbage into my
file, well, I just have to declare serf unsupported.

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