Suggestion for addition to path-based authentication
C. Michael Pilato
cmpilato at red-bean.com
Thu Apr 18 09:36:06 CDT 2013
Good suggestion, Joe. I committed the following patch in r4464:
Index: book/ch06-server-configuration.xml
===================================================================
--- book/ch06-server-configuration.xml (revision 4462)
+++ book/ch06-server-configuration.xml (working copy)
@@ -4254,10 +4254,15 @@
<note>
<para>Paths used in access file sections must be specified
- using Subversion's <quote>internal style</quote>, which mostly
- just means that they use forward slash (<literal>/</literal>)
- characters as directory separators (even on Windows
- systems).</para>
+ using Subversion's <quote>internal style</quote>, which
+ mostly just means that they are encoded in UTF-8 and use
+ forward slash (<literal>/</literal>) characters as directory
+ separators (even on Windows systems). Note also that these
+ paths do not employ any character escaping mechanism (such
+ as URI-encoding)—spaces in path names should be
+ represented exactly as such in access file section names
+ (<literal>[repos-name:path with spaces]</literal>,
+ e.g.)</para>
</note>
<para>Here's a simple example demonstrating a piece of the
On 04/05/2013 09:08 PM, Joseph Morris wrote:
> Hi SVN Bookers,
>
> Thanks for the great free resource. I think it would be worth a line or
> two on this page:
>
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.serverconfig.pathbasedauthz.html
>
> about how to deal with escaping characters (or rather, not escaping
> characters) in the authz file. Something along these lines:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8317074/subversion-authz-path-containing-spaces
>
>
> Joe
>
>
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