C. Michael Pilato wrote on Tue, 5 Jan 2010 at 00:32 -0500: > Ben Collins-Sussman wrote: > > Is svnserve really allowing you to create a random svn: junk property? > > I was pretty sure that servers validated svn: properties -- only a > > scant few exist, and users aren't supposed to be able to invent them. > > My guess is that apache is throwing an error (207 mult-status probably > > contains a 5XX code inside it somewhere) when it fails validate the > > outgoing svn:asdf property, and then the svn client chokes on the > > error. > > I'm pretty sure we do NOT have server validation of svn: property names. To > date, most of our svn: properties are for client functionality only, so we > would have been painting ourselves into a corner by having servers validate > those suckers (forcing folks to upgrade servers just to get > server-independent client functionality).
The server validates that the properties *it knows about* (e.g., svn:date, svn:log) have valid values. Last I checked, we don't check either for "unknown propname" svn:* props or for svn:* props used as versioned props instead of revprops (or vice versa).
