On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 01:03:30AM -0500, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> I disagree about [1] (more below). If you have your heart set on HTTP 
> then you want to use DAV. But then again, the server might not support DAV.

This has been discussed before. DAV is not relevant to Darcs[1] because
Darcs is interested in patch bundles, not files. Only GET and POST are
meaningful for Darcs.

> > [1] Yes, I know it's possible to be pretty sure that only Darcs will
> > run, but a) these methods have been historically unreliable, and b)
> > they are black magic; more people are comfortable with configuring a
> > web server.
> 
> I don't see why it's black magic or unreliable. This is exactly the 
> method our group decided on (OpenDocument Fellowship). You just make a 
> custom shell which is simple enough.

At least some people are finding this sort of thing not so simple:

http://www.snailbook.com/faq/restricted-scp.auto.html
http://www.pizzashack.org/rssh/security.shtml

-- Jamie Webb

[1] Unless you plan on taking Darcs off the server entirely, which is
a much bigger problem, and it's still not clear that DAV would be up
to the job.

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