[Kamesh Jayachandran] > This patch is *not* an RA layer hack rather a transparent generic > feature so I see nothing wrong in propagating it to higher layers.
Well, I agree with Mike, it is neither "transparent" nor "generic". I know you dressed it up to look generic, but we all know that it is specifically needed only for one particular RA backend, in one particular configuration. As you've said yourself, higher layers should not have to know anything about proxying. Ideally even the RA layer does nothing special, it is all handled by mod_dav_svn, but if that's not possible, I'd like to see it only bubble up to the RA layer. Peter