Ben Reser wrote on Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 09:22:13 -0800: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Philip Martin > <philip.mar...@wandisco.com> wrote: > > When the client sends the OPTIONS request to the proxy mod_dav calls > > into mod_dav_svn/version.c:get_option. Is it possible for mod_dav_svn > > to send an OPTIONS request to the master at that stage? I suppose > > that's a not quite the same as the proxy mechanism used for other > > requests. > > Seems to me this is what you would need to do. Using a configuration > option signals a need to keep the configuration option in sync with > the master. If you don't use a configuration option then you > shouldn't have to maintain anything. If you cache the version on the > proxy then the proxy needs to be restarted whenever the master > changes. Which isn't particularly intuitive.
How so? If the proxy caches the master version per-process or per-connection, it won't need to be restarted to notice master upgrades, will it?