On 2/13/06, Joe Gregorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/13/06, Kyle Marvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tim, > > > > At Google, we've had several internal discussions on this issue. > > Our concerns aren't the ones you cited (low-end servers not supporting > > PUT/DELETE) but rather the possibility that intermediate proxies might > > have issues with PUT/DELETE. > > Kyle, > If this was a possibility I would have thought that WebDAV > implementations would have run into it by now, in particular > subversion deployments. Maybe you could contact the folks > at sourceforge and see how their rollout of subversion is > going?
Hi Joe, Yes, this is a good suggestion. WebDAV was certainly at the bleeding edge of using additional HTTP methods and there is certainly lots of (older) annecdotal info you can find via a Google search that shows some of that pain. I have not doubt that this pain also has made things incrementally better and often pain or stress are the way things evolve and get better. I'd still observe, though, that the community of folks accessing remote files via WebDAV or source repositories via Subversion over the Net is both smaller and different than folks accessing Google services today. A failure rate of a few percentage points can still be a pretty big number, and often the folks experiencing the failure aren't equipped to diagnose the problem and/or find the right entity to yell at. They are just as likely to shrug their shoulders, say it doesn't work, and move on to something that does. -- Kyle
