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RE: Feature idea: user-configurable post-commit notifications

From: Bert Huijben <bert_at_qqmail.nl>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:45:43 +0200

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Stein [mailto:gstein_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: vrijdag 23 april 2010 0:57
> To: Hyrum K. Wright
> Cc: Subversion Development
> Subject: Re: Feature idea: user-configurable post-commit notifications
>
> Write a hook script to do exactly that, and make it part of the
> standard release.
>
> In some future release, after that script and its features stabilize,
> *then* we can consider placing into into the core code.
>
> I fear the security aspects of something like you talk about: anybody
> with commit access getting the server to issue a POST request to any
> arbitrary URL *reachable* by the server? Oh ho ho... I can't even
> begin to describe how many alarms that would trip with security
> conscious administrators.

+1 on all of this.

        Bert
Received on 2010-04-23 11:46:21 CEST

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