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  • Committer: John Arbash Meinel
  • Date: 2006-12-18 15:42:15 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 2195.
  • Revision ID: john@arbash-meinel.com-20061218154215-e0vj23m4r1tn8wys
Comment that https:// is a good way to have a writable URL next to a read-only http:// url.

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actually write data on your system.  At this time, it is not possible to
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allow some people to have read-only access and others to have read-write
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access to the same urls. Because at the HTTP layer (which is doing the
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Authenticating), everything is just a POST request.  However, with a
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simple symlink, you could configure 2 URLs where one has restricted write
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access, and the other has read-only access.
 
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Authenticating), everything is just a POST request.  However, it would
 
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certainly be possible to have HTTPS require authentication and use a
 
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writable server, and plain HTTP allow read-only access.
 
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   vim: ft=rst tw=74 et