On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Lieven Govaerts > <lieven.govae...@gmail.com> wrote: >>... >> When playing around with 'KeepAlive Off' on the server, I noticed that >> serf asks Subversion for the proxy credentials for every new >> connection. Subversion stops with an authentication failed error after >> the 4th connection, because it assumes the first 4 were all failed >> attempts to authenticate. >> >> So, the application depends on serf caching the proxy credentials per >> session/realm, and similarly the server creds per server/realm. I have >> a WIP patch that improves credentials caching for Basic and Digest, >> I'll try to finish that in the coming days.
This issue is fixed by r1983. > > Well... it seems you could also reset the counter upon a successful > response. Or track it per-connection. [in the app, rather than in > serf] > > Resetting the counter might be a bit easier than a new cache. (and > defer the cache to future serf rev) I've opted for a relatively simple cache, because I don't think serf gives the application enough information to decide why the credentials callback got called. Lieven > > Cheers, > -g
