Re: RFC: New authn/authz policy for svn.collab.net

On 2009-07-30 12:37, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
[chop]
> > IMHO anonymous repository access should be still available over SSL connections.
>
> I disagree. Doing this adds unnecessary complication to the configuration
> (some of which is exactly the kind of thing I'm trying to get rid of by
> applying the rules I suggested), unnecessary performance/load penalties to
> the server (why do we want to be doing SSL calculations for anonymous
> accessors?), and all while bringing no discernible benefit to the users.
>

SSL for anonymous access prevents MITM attacks on downloads from the
repository.

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