Re: [PATCH v2] HTTPv2 allow client to control transaction name in protocol

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 07:29, Philip Martin <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
>...
> Extend Subversion's v2 HTTP protocol to include URIs that allow the
> client to define the transaction name visible in on the wire.
>
> If the client sends, or a proxy injects, an SVN-VTxn-Name header with
> the POST request it defines the transaction name to be returned to the
> client in the POST response.  If the client recieves the new
> SVN-VTxn-Name header it uses that name in the new URIs in the requests
> that make up the commit.

I don't understand why the *client* needs to read that header. The
base URI that the server returns already has the proper txn name,
right?

Sending *to* the server creates the "client-provided" feature that you
want to retain. I just don't understand the other direction.

Cheers,
-g
Received on 2011-03-04 18:49:46 CET