On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:36, C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> wrote: > Steve Simon wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Many appologies if this is not the correct place to ask about >> svn's dav support, if so please rediect me. >> >> AS per the subject, SVN's WebDAV server does not seem to >> be honouring partial HTTP GETs even though it appears to >> offer the facility with >> >> Accept-Range: bytes > > [...] > >> Would you expect svn to support partial gets? Is SVN likely to support >> partial GETs in the future? > > I wouldn't expect that support to exist today because Subversion's clients > don't require it (and that's really the driver for most of our server-side > features). Is it likely to grow that support in the future? Only if > someone writes the code. We've no reason to reject that enhancement, but > (again, because Subversion clients don't make use of the functionality) also > no compelling reason to prioritize it highly.
Apache itself should be handling the ranged-GET operation. IOW, we shouldn't have to do anything. So maybe we broke Apache's range handling. Cheers, -g
