Paul Hammant wrote on Sat, 09 Dec 2017 16:22 -0500: > So, administrators of Svn installs should *not* create paths in authz files > with *trailing slashes* - like [/foo/] - right? I say that because my > attempts to do so yields plenty of unexplainable 403 responses in ordinary > clients like web browsers. Making me think it's a bug.
No, it's intentional: https://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.8.html#authz-fspath-syntax The cause of the 403 should be logged on the server side. > Or there could be a dev-team view that this is a documentation improvement > issue at this point. Specifically some advice like "Paths that are > directories don't have trailing slashes in square brackets other than [/] > for the root" added to the above page. > > One more thing - Mike Pilato's > http://blogs.collab.net/subversion/authz_and_anon_ article on CollabNet's > blog ... would be great if it were slurped into the SvnBook somehow. Anyone > from Collabnet care to weigh in? Bug reports against the book should go to svnbook-...@red-bean.com
