[RFC] Authentication and supporting Push through bzr+http://

[Vincent Ladeuil]

>>>>> "jam" == John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:

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    >> The modification above will trigger 401 for all requests except
    >> GET, HEAD or OPTIONS.


    jam> All smart server requests are POST requests. If you want to have
    jam> readonly be a dumb http transfer, you can already do that by just
    jam> requiring authentication for .bzr/smart.

I realized that shortly after having already sent the email.

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    jam> Some of the readonly requests are going to be passing
    jam> several KB (10, 100?, 1M?) So I don't think that is well
    jam> handled by GET.


Case closed ;)

     Vincent