Re: svn commit: r1417639 - in /subversion/trunk/subversion/mod_dav_svn: dav_svn.h mod_dav_svn.c reports/update.c

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:

> 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.
>

+1. I'm all for documenting and giving knobs to users who RTFM.

My very strong preference is that we should do the "right thing" out of the
box - and that is to use parallel updates - even against older servers.
 This has always been the behavior of ra_serf and it's definitely backwards
compatible with all 1.x servers.

If an admin doesn't like it (because of per-req authn or bad logging
subsystems or the phase of the moon), they can try to direct 1.8+ clients
away from parallel updates via the new directive/headers; but, we should
not require any configurations to do the best generically recommended
approach. -- justin
Received on 2012-12-07 08:49:31 CET