> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 01:24:35PM -0700, Jonathan Tan wrote:
> 
> > > The test you're deleting is basically just verifying that our apache
> > > config is indeed "half-auth". Because in v0, the server is never even
> > > going to ask for credentials, so no interesting code paths in the client
> > > are triggered. So it's not actually testing anything of interest.
> > 
> > If both of us want to drop this test, that's great :-) but for
> > clarification: in addition to verifying that our apache config is
> > "half-auth", this test also verifies that in a no-op fetch, we don't hit
> > the path that is guarded by an authentication requirement. This seems
> > significant to me in light of the link you provided in your prior email
> > [1].
> 
> Yeah, I suppose it does. I just never really thought of that as a
> plausible regression to introduce, given the way the v0 protocol works. :)
> 
> Although in a sense it is interesting, because it did reveal something
> about v2 that we hadn't considered. I don't think it's worth addressing
> (especially now), but had we been doing cross-protocol tests sooner, we
> might have looked at it more in the design phase.
> 
> So I would also be OK with just marking it as as v0-only test.

OK - I'll wait to see what others think. Thanks for looking at this so
far.

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