Gmane
From: Jan Kneschke <jan <at> kneschke.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support proxying WebDAV (eg subversion / svn)
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.web.lighttpd
Date: 2005-08-18 08:24:27 GMT (3 years, 45 weeks, 6 days and 2 minutes ago)
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 06:53:33PM +0200, Sam Vilain wrote:
> The attached proof of concept patch adds basic proxy support for 
> proxying Web-DAV, which is probably most useful to those people wanting 
> to run http:// Subversion repositories.
> 
> It's not enough to commit yet; the OPTIONS request isn't being sent 
> through by mod_proxy for some reason.  But it's enough to check out and 
> update, so good for running a public repo.
> 
> Example config:
> 
>  $HTTP["host"] == "svn.example.com" {
>    #proxy.balance = "fair"
>    #proxy.debug = 1
>    proxy.server  = ( "" => ( "svn" => (
>                                  "host" => "192.168.255.1",
>                                  "port" => 3001,
>                            ) ) )
>  }

Something like this is in the current 1.4.0 pre-release. 

And yes, the OPTIONS is handled by the webserver itself and is not
proxied yet as OPTIONS is handled in one of the first stages to make it
simple.

> Sam.

    Jan

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