On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 03:54:00PM -0500, Mark Phippard wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:46 PM, <lgo_at_apache.org> wrote:
> > Author: lgo
> > Date: Wed Dec 5 20:46:33 2012
> > New Revision: 1417639
> >
> > URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1417639&view=rev
> > Log:
> > Add a Force option to SVNAllowBulkUpdates. This allows a server admin to always
> > respond to an update-report request with all content and properties inline.
> > Now that skelta mode will be the new default with ra_serf, this feature can be
> > useful in certain situations where the admin wants to avoid the overhead
> > of per-file GET requests (e.g. with per-request Kerberos authentication).
>
>
> I appreciate that you are doing *something* here, but I still wonder
> if this is the right thing. It seems like it would be better if a 1.8
> client tried to negotiate for the right to use skelta mode and it
> required a specifically configured 1.8 server to allow it. I see two
> problems with your approach:
>
> 1) Users running older servers, who are perhaps the most vulnerable to
> the new behavior, will not get any relief when 1.8 clients become the
> norm.
>
> 2) Wouldn't this new option break any users that happen to be using
> Serf with a pre-1.8 client?
>
> I think Serf clients should default to "sendall" mode unless the
> OPTIONS includes something that says it is OK to use skelta mode.
> This would force 1.8 clients to behave like Neon clients when talking
> to older servers and it would allow admins that upgrade their servers
> to 1.8 to get whatever benefits they see from enabling the skelta
> mode.
>
> Just my 2 cents
Makes sense.
We could also consider making 1.8 server advertise skelta mode capability
by default, with an option to turn it off, so that 1.8 clients will negotiate
skelta mode with 1.8 servers by default, but not with earlier servers.
This way, 1.8 clients talking to 1.8 servers can take advantage of skelta
mode, while clients talking to older servers won't stress out existing
installations by default.
In the 1.8 release notes We can raise attention in the fact that a 1.8
server should turn off skelta mode if necessary, such as when each GET
request causes an authentication request to LDAP.
Received on 2012-12-07 00:30:27 CET