Re: svn's webdav not honouring partial GETs

Steve Simon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Many appologies if this is not the correct place to ask about
> svn's dav support, if so please rediect me.
>
> AS per the subject, SVN's WebDAV server does not seem to
> be honouring partial HTTP GETs even though it appears to
> offer the facility with
>
> Accept-Range: bytes

[...]

> Would you expect svn to support partial gets? Is SVN likely to support
> partial GETs in the future?

I wouldn't expect that support to exist today because Subversion's clients
don't require it (and that's really the driver for most of our server-side
features). Is it likely to grow that support in the future? Only if
someone writes the code. We've no reason to reject that enhancement, but
(again, because Subversion clients don't make use of the functionality) also
no compelling reason to prioritize it highly.

> Am I asking in the wrong place?
>
> FWIW I am writing a WebDAV client to access SVN repositories for
> plan9.

Cool. And yes, you're asking in exactly the right place.

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