Von:
Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2010b_at_ryandesign.com>
An:
Bettual Richter <Bettual.Richter_extern_at_ppi.de>
Kopie:
users_at_subversion.apache.org
Datum:
21.05.2010 16:36
Betreff:
Re: Maxsize of Properties
On May 21, 2010, at 06:39, Bettual Richter wrote:
>>> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> On May 20, 2010, at 05:40, Bettual Richter wrote:
>>>
>>>> does anyone know if there is some kind of maxsize for revision
properties ?
>>>
>>> I'm not sure.
>>>
>>>> I'd like to set long revision properties on a repository.
>>>
>>> How large?
>>
>> I'm not really sure how large the properties are finally going to be
>> but lets say like 10 000 000 charaters would be quite desirable.
>Based on the error message "413 Request Entity Too Large", I'm guessing
that's too large.
>When you're serving your repository via Apache, Subversion properties are
implemented as WebDAV properties, I think. I found a reference [1] that
says the WebDAV spec doesn't limit the size >of properties, but that some
implementations might. I guess maybe Apache and/or Subversion do impose a
limit of some kind.
>Properties are designed for short strings, like the name of the author,
the date and time, the log message. It therefore wouldn't surprise me to
find out that this infrastructure is not >prepared to accept a property
with 10MB of data.
>If I'm right about Subversion properties being implemented as WebDAV
properties, then you might have success bypassing WebDAV, i.e. using
svnserve. Or that might fail too. I haven't tried.
>[1]
>http://books.google.com/books?id=LN6PRtgiwNgC&pg=PA164&lpg=PA164&dq=maximum+size+of+webdav+property&source=bl&ots=RzC0RsrP0A&sig=FeEp0d-X62pSLfvpfQf3He2yX3k&hl=en&ei=9nL2S6KFBIOUMdCPkIQI&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CDkQ6AEwCQ
Thanks, at the moment my hint is also the Apache which limits the bodysize
of a http request.
Hopefully that's a way to solve this issue but I still have to test it
first.
We wish to use the Information in properties to make sure every client
used
on our repositories is able to read them.
Received on 2010-05-25 10:48:33 CEST