Re: Logging Subversion client HTTP requests

on 08/01/2011 05:31 AM Andreas Krey said the following:

>> Anyway, in my implementation I did not do any repeated requests and I
>> can retrieve the information I want apparently much faster in PHP than
>> using the svn program. So I wonder if could be missing anything.
>
> It *may* be another opportunity to bash the maturity of libsvn. :-)
> I assume the aforementioned protocol change does not just mean eliminating
> these redundancies.

I did not intend to bash anybody. It just seemed odd to see those
apparently needless repeated request, as well never seeing gzip
compressed responses which could have made SubVersion servers much aste.

>> Given than a typical gzip encoding can compress text data about 5 times,
>> it seemed to me there is a great opportunity to make SubVersion HTTP
>> server accesses much faster, but that opportunity is not being addressed
>> because SubVersion HTTP servers do not compress responses. Again I maybe
>> missing something here.
>
> I use ssh port forwarding for svn http:// access anyway, and that can
> take care of the compression, even of the headers. Like:
>
> ssh -L 4080:svnhost:80 wellconnected.host
> svn checkout http://localhost:4080/path/to/repo

I see but that compression only happens inside your ssh tunnel. I am
sure a direct connection with gzip/deflate compression would be much faster.

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