Re: Authz on Collection of Repositories

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
> On 05.11.2012 00:21, Thomas Åkesson wrote:
>> I did some tests with curl --head just as a sanity check. It seems to be a good choice for access control. I primarily wanted to see that HEAD requests were not allowed in situations where GET is not (e.g. when user has access in directories below).
>>
>> The HEAD requests I performed (minimal curl command) did not cause the server to provide Content-Length when returning "200 OK".
>
> Which is precisely what I was talking about in my other post. Such HEAD
> responses are invalid. If we implement HEAD, we have to do it correctly.
>
I believe we use chunked responses and I assume they do not require
Content-Length header.

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Ivan Zhakov