On 07/29/2010 12:15 PM, Mark Phippard wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:09 PM, C. Michael Pilato
> <cmpilato_at_red-bean.com> wrote:
>> b) If the prompting approach is preferred, what's a reasonable way to do
>> this? The notification function cannot serve as a prompt. We could add a
>> redirection_callback_func to the likes of svn_client_update,
>> svn_client_checkout, svn_client_switch, svn_client_relocate, etc., but that
>> seems like such a really weird concept to expose at the API level. We could
>> introduce a custom prompting function in the client context baton. *shrug*
>
> My knowledge of the API is from JavaHL. In JavaHL, we have a callback
> function where SVN can ask a Yes/No question. So I assume this is a
> callback that already exists in SVN. Could you just use this existing
> callback (with an appropriately worded Yes/No question)? Not sure
> that makes it easier or not.
>
> If you went with a setting, were you going to propose the redirect
> feature is on by default? I think it needs to be, else it is not
> worth doing in the first place.
I was originally thinking "off by default", but only because of the
theoretical security implications of being automatically redirected to a URL
(possibly a different machine, etc.) that differs from what you expected.
Maybe I'm overthinking that, exaggerating the risk? If so -- if there's no
risk to automatically following redirection notices -- then is there any
value in having either configuration OR prompts for this behavior?
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Received on 2010-07-29 18:24:45 CEST