[svnbook] r3780 committed - Indentation and whitespace changes only.
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Revision: 3780
Author: cmpilato at gmail.com
Date: Mon Sep 13 11:29:19 2010
Log: Indentation and whitespace changes only.
http://code.google.com/p/svnbook/source/detail?r=3780
Modified:
/trunk/src/en/book/ch06-server-configuration.xml
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--- /trunk/src/en/book/ch06-server-configuration.xml Mon Sep 13 11:27:21
2010
+++ /trunk/src/en/book/ch06-server-configuration.xml Mon Sep 13 11:29:19
2010
@@ -3186,35 +3186,35 @@
instead of doing global-search-and-replace operations on the
whole access file.</para>
- <!-- TODO(sussman): Once serf becomes officially support, this
- sidebar will need to be revisited. -->
-
- <sidebar>
- <title>Partial Readability and Checkouts</title>
-
- <para>If you're using Apache as your Subversion server and have
- made certain subdirectories of your repository unreadable to
- certain users, you need to be aware of a possible
- nonoptimal behavior with <command>svn checkout</command>.</para>
-
- <para>When the client requests a checkout or update over HTTP, it
- makes a single server request and receives a single (often
- large) server response. When the server receives the request,
- that is the <emphasis>only</emphasis> opportunity Apache has to
- demand user authentication. This has some odd side effects.
- For example, if a certain subdirectory of the repository is
- readable only by user Sally, and user Harry checks out a parent
- directory, his client will respond to the initial authentication
- challenge as Harry. As the server generates the large response,
- there's no way it can resend an authentication challenge when
- it reaches the special subdirectory; thus the subdirectory is
- skipped altogether, rather than asking the user to
- reauthenticate as Sally at the right moment. In a similar way,
- if the root of the repository is anonymously world-readable,
- the entire checkout will be done without
- authentication—again, skipping the unreadable directory,
- rather than asking for authentication partway through.</para>
- </sidebar>
+ <!-- TODO(sussman): Once serf becomes officially support, this
+ sidebar will need to be revisited. -->
+ <sidebar>
+ <title>Partial Readability and Checkouts</title>
+
+ <para>If you're using Apache as your Subversion server and have
+ made certain subdirectories of your repository unreadable to
+ certain users, you need to be aware of a possible nonoptimal
+ behavior with <command>svn checkout</command>.</para>
+
+ <para>When the client requests a checkout or update over HTTP,
+ it makes a single server request and receives a single (often
+ large) server response. When the server receives the request,
+ that is the <emphasis>only</emphasis> opportunity Apache has
+ to demand user authentication. This has some odd side
+ effects. For example, if a certain subdirectory of the
+ repository is readable only by user Sally, and user Harry
+ checks out a parent directory, his client will respond to the
+ initial authentication challenge as Harry. As the server
+ generates the large response, there's no way it can resend an
+ authentication challenge when it reaches the special
+ subdirectory; thus the subdirectory is skipped altogether,
+ rather than asking the user to reauthenticate as Sally at the
+ right moment. In a similar way, if the root of the repository
+ is anonymously world-readable, the entire checkout will be
+ done without authentication—again, skipping the
+ unreadable directory, rather than asking for authentication
+ partway through.</para>
+ </sidebar>
</sect1>
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