[z3-checkins] r9403 - z3/davuseragent/trunk

[paul at codespeak.net]

Author: paul
Date: Tue Feb 22 14:50:20 2005
New Revision: 9403

Modified:
   z3/davuseragent/trunk/README.txt
Log:
Comments from Paul

Modified: z3/davuseragent/trunk/README.txt
==============================================================================
--- z3/davuseragent/trunk/README.txt	(original)
+++ z3/davuseragent/trunk/README.txt	Tue Feb 22 14:50:20 2005
@@ -28,7 +28,15 @@
 To solve this problem, Zope 2 invented a WebDAV source port, a
 different port to which one could connect WebDAV clients and where a
 GET request always led to the source of objects.  This approach is
-impractical because XXX (Paul adds some stuff here) XXX.
+impractical for a number of reasons:
+
+  o Users invariably can't remember the port (and shouldn't have to)
+
+  o Firewalls invariably block high ports (and firewall admins
+    shouldn't have to know about DAV source port hacks)
+
+  o When used behind Apache, security means SSL, and SSL+weird port
+    numbers is yet-another-thing to manage.
 
 With `davuseragent`, we follow a different approach: We decide based
 on the User-Agent header of the incoming request whether we have a