On 12.07.2017 21:50, Paul Hammant wrote: > You know, in all seriousness I think the (empty by default) list of > exempted files suffixes the the best way forward. If suffixes is good > enough for Apache itself to use (link provided earlier), it is good > enough in this scenario on the server side of Svn.
The cases are completely different. Yes, httpd (optionally) uses file name suffixes to set the Content-Type header, but the file names and their content are completely controlled by the server administrator. That's not the case with Subversion; quite the opposite. > If the function in question doesn't know the file name then I that > param should be added to the functions args (and backwards through all > the methods in the stack until it's reached the place where the > resource name was known). Mmm ... interesting proposition. Also huge -1 because it'd be a really awsome abstraction leak. :) -- Brane
