On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Branko Čibej <br...@wandisco.com> wrote: > On 25.06.2013 15:37, Ivan Zhakov wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Ivan Zhakov <i...@visualsvn.com> wrote: >>> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Ivan Zhakov <i...@visualsvn.com> wrote: >>>>> ... >>>>> The fix seems to be pretty simple and could be safely backported (see >>>>> patch). The only problem that probably we cannot backport addition of >>>>> new configuration option due our backward compatibility policy. But >>>>> may be I'm wrong. >>>> The SVN_CONFIG_OPTION_HTTP_FORCE_HTTP10 symbol cannot be added. >>>> Anything using and compiled against that could not be compiled against >>>> 1.8.0. >>>> >>>> But: we don't have to add the public symbol. We can certainly read/use >>>> the config option in a 1.8.1 release. >>>> >>>> But as I said else-thread, I think we should only disable chunked >>>> requests. Not force HTTP/1.0 completely. And call it busted-proxy :-) >>>> >>> I agree that force-http10 is not good name and semantic. Actually >>> these proxies is not busted: it's allowed to HTTP/1.1 proxies to >>> require content-length if they want. And strictly speaking proxies may >>> have different behavior for different requests. >>> >>> So I'm going to commit my patch with 'http-disable-chunked-requests' >>> and nominate for backport. This should provide workaround for current >>> users. And then continue discussion about full/automatic solution. >>> >> Added 'htttp-chunked-requests' configuration in r1496470. > > 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.
Use https to connect to your repositories, than this whole issue does not impact you when on the road. > -- Brane > > -- > Branko Čibej | Director of Subversion > WANdisco // Non-Stop Data > e. br...@wandisco.com
