http dav support

[John A Meinel]

Jan Hudec wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 19:19:35 -0500, James Blackwell wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 06:17:06PM -0600, John A Meinel wrote:
>>> As far as I know, read-only webdav is just plain http. It is only when
>>> you go to write that you need webdav.
>> Mostly right. One of the useful things of webdav in readonly mode is the
>> ability to get directory listings (this is why in tla one needs listing
>> files for straight http, but not readonly dav)
> 
> Unfortunately not all servers allow DAV and not all proxies forward DAV
> requests, so you can't rely on that being available.

bzr is probably going to stay defined such that you need the root level
object, and can get all others from there, without requiring directory
listings.

However, for some copy operations it is cheaper to list a directory,
rather than parse all of the inventories for all revisions. (think bzr
branch) So if we can get a listing, we should take advantage of it.

John
=:->

> 
> --
> 						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>


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