Hi, Ben, Von: Ben Reser [mailto:b...@reser.org] > > On 2/25/14, 12:03 PM, Johannes Michler wrote: > > Well but by looking into my logfiles I see that my server is indeed > > sending HTTP-401. Is this the problem? > > I don't think there's really anything that a 1.8 client can or should do > different here. The server is saying "give me authn credentials" and the > client is trying to ask for them. The same problem exists for a 1.7 client, > it's just that we don't walk up into trees that you're not expecting so > you're not seeing this sort of loop (and currently mod_dav_svn returns errors > rather than 401's for secondary paths).
I tend to think it might be a sensible behavior to not prompt for Authentication on the client side during specifically this kind of upwards tree walk when the client successfully authenticated for the "main" request, and later fails with the same credentials for a parent directory - it could catch this situation, and just treat it like a "forbidden" internally. However, I'm not sure whether this is easy to implement given the asynchronous, parallel architecture of serf... Best regards Markus Schaber CODESYS(r) a trademark of 3S-Smart Software Solutions GmbH Inspiring Automation Solutions 3S-Smart Software Solutions GmbH Dipl.-Inf. Markus Schaber | Product Development Core Technology Memminger Str. 151 | 87439 Kempten | Germany Tel. +49-831-54031-979 | Fax +49-831-54031-50 E-Mail: m.scha...@codesys.com | Web: http://www.codesys.com | CODESYS store: http://store.codesys.com CODESYS forum: http://forum.codesys.com Managing Directors: Dipl.Inf. Dieter Hess, Dipl.Inf. Manfred Werner | Trade register: Kempten HRB 6186 | Tax ID No.: DE 167014915
