On Jun 24, 2009, at 6:40 AM, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> Greg Stein wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 03:27, Blair Zajac<blair_at_orcaware.com> wrote:
>>> I met some corporate customers today who were wondering if we are
>>> going to consider HTTP v2 to be a public API? We will have to
>>> support
>>> the HTTP v2 protocol that gets deployed in 1.7 indefinitely so we
>>> will
>>> always need to deal with backwards compatibility with 1.7 clients
>>> and
>>> hence preserve that API, but are we going to make any guarantees
>>> about
>>> the protocol for future versions? Are we going to make a statement
>>> that the protocol is public or private just for svn's use and hands
>>> off, do not use?
>>
>> IMO, "private, use with care." We obviously have to continue to
>> maintain it for our *own* compatibility purposes, but I do not
>> believe
>> that we (as a community) have signed up to support the protocol to be
>> used *outside* of ra_serf/mod_dav_svn.
>>
>> For example, if somebody writes me an email saying, "I sent a
>> PROPFIND
>> like <this> to <that> URL, but it didn't work", then I'd say "eh?
>> you're not using libsvn_ra_serf? bah. go have fun on your own."
>>
>>> This hasn't been an issue with the svnserve protocol, but it's going
>>> to be very easy to write a non-svn client that interacts with
>>> Subversion using the new API.
>>>
>>> Also, not that anyone has said this, but I don't think we should
>>> ever
>>> drop the WebDAV protocol as there are shops out there that mount svn
>>> for web developers or non-SCM aware departments for auto-versioning.
>>> It's a feature we shouldn't loose.
>>
>> Completely agreed, and I don't think anybody has suggested dropping
>> it
>> for that very reason.
>>
>> We've given up on *DeltaV*, but not on Class 1 and Class 2 WebDAV.
>
> What he said.
>
> I'll add that proper use of HTTP v2 still involves sending an OPTIONS
> request to the server, allowing it to respond with the configured
> values of
> the various stub URLs, and then using those stubs to build out full
> URLs.
> Clients may not assume that every server uses the same format for
> the stub
> URLs, especially as that format is trivially tweakable using
> mod_dav_svn's
> SVNSpecialURI directive.
Thanks guys. "private, use with care" sounds good to me.
Blair
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