Loggerhead question

[Michael Hudson]

John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Matt Nordhoff wrote:
>> Russel Winder wrote:
>>> Is there a way of setting up Loggerhead with Apache that allows the same
>>> URL to be used for browsing using a browser and branching using bzr or
>>> Bazaar Explorer.
>>>
>>> I have Loggerhead working fine on xxxx:8080/Bazaar/Project and pointing
>>> Epiphany at it does everything required.  However doing "bzr info
>>> xxxx:8080/Bazaar/Project" gives the "not a branch" error.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>> You can configure Apache to handle requests with "/.bzr/" in them itself
>> instead of passing them to Loggerhead.
> 
>> Or, Loggerhead supports serving branches over HTTP, over both the dumb
>> and smart servers. Maybe your Loggerhead is too old for that?
> 
> 
> What implementation does loggerhead use for serving branches over a dumb
> http request?
> 
> My concern is that it is using the built-in HTTPServer (or whatever it
> is called), which does *not* support range requests.

It uses something which does not support range requests indeed, so we
should really make sure the smart server works properly...

Cheers,
mwh