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Re: WebDAV proxy feature "negotiation" -- there's *got* to be a better way.

From: Daniel Shahaf <danielsh_at_apache.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:09:01 +0200

Ben Reser wrote on Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 09:22:13 -0800:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Philip Martin
> <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
> > When the client sends the OPTIONS request to the proxy mod_dav calls
> > into mod_dav_svn/version.c:get_option. Is it possible for mod_dav_svn
> > to send an OPTIONS request to the master at that stage? I suppose
> > that's a not quite the same as the proxy mechanism used for other
> > requests.
>
> Seems to me this is what you would need to do. Using a configuration
> option signals a need to keep the configuration option in sync with
> the master. If you don't use a configuration option then you
> shouldn't have to maintain anything. If you cache the version on the
> proxy then the proxy needs to be restarted whenever the master
> changes. Which isn't particularly intuitive.

How so? If the proxy caches the master version per-process or
per-connection, it won't need to be restarted to notice master upgrades,
will it?
Received on 2013-02-19 19:09:15 CET

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