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Re: svn commit: r1495419 - in /subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_ra_serf: options.c ra_serf.h serf.c util.c

From: Daniel Shahaf <danielsh_at_elego.de>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 01:12:45 +0300

Johan Corveleyn wrote on Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 23:22:12 +0200:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Ivan Zhakov <ivan_at_visualsvn.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Philip Martin
> >> <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
> >>> Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com> writes:
> >>>
> >>>> I'm really not a fan of this config knob. Anyone who carries their
> >>>> laptop around will effectively have to set this as the default, because
> >>>> you never know when the next weird proxy will pop up in front of your
> >>>> server. And disabling chunked requests by default is a lot worse than
> >>>> the extra non-pipelined request for broken proxies, IMO.
> >>
> >> Right.
> >>
> >> Though I suspect most of the problems are reverse proxies in front of
> >> a particular server, so you can put the config option into a [server]
> >> config block instead of global. That will help to limit the problem,
> >> but lack of dynamic detection is still a problem.
> >>
> > What is the benefit of dynamic detection enabled by some knob in config file?
>
> The dynamic detection has a cost (1 extra request per connection),
> that you might want to avoid by default (most environments won't need
> the dynamic detection (especially corporate environments)). Only
> enable the dynamic detection if you know the proxy has a problem with
> chunkness, or if you're not sure it will stay that way, or ...
>
> (not interfering with the rest of the discussion right now :-)

AIUI the cost is only incurred by set-ups that have the so-called
"busted" proxies. And a config option has a cost too: it would need to
be supported until 2.0 (aka, indefinitely).
Received on 2013-06-26 00:16:43 CEST

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