On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Ben Reser <b...@reser.org> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Vladimir Berezniker <v...@hitechman.com> > wrote: > > If someone does not mind explaining. What would be the benefit of having > > this decision be made by the server vs the client having to request that > via > > a explicit parameter on the request? > > It's not so much of a benefit as it is a compatibility problem. We > support WebDAV clients with auto-versioning. WebDAV+auto-versioning > lets you mount a SVN repository as though it was a regular file system > and just start making changes with each change automatically committed > as a revision. These clients are at current indistinguishable from a > web browser, they make similar requests that a web browser would and > don't have some pattern we can key off in the GET request. > > When using these clients it's important that we don't present to them > a different version of the file than what the repository actually > stores. Otherwise we break this functionality. > > Using a query parameter means you can ask for the keyword expansion > without breaking these clients. >
Query parameter makes perfect sense to me. Thank you.
