On 30.01.2012 11:14, Philip Martin wrote: > Daniel Shahaf <danie...@elego.de> writes: > >> - Send a patch to svn_repos__validate_props() (and make your case that >> it should be applied) > I think the current situation for property names is: > > - the backend FS layer allows any null terminated string as a property > name > > - the frontend client layer restricts property names to a subset of > ASCII
And the HTTP layer has its own implicit restrictions. > I'm still not clear whether Garret wants to relax the client > restrictions, or tighten the server restictions, or do both. It's always a good idea to have the server validate using the same rules as the client libs. Not exactly backward-compatible, but I consider it bug that the server allows property names that the client does not. -- Brane
