svn commit: r1502701 - /subversion/site/publish/docs/release-notes/1.8.html

[da...@apache.org]

Author: danielsh
Date: Fri Jul 12 21:49:14 2013
New Revision: 1502701

URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1502701
Log:
* publish/docs/release-notes/1.8.html
  (#411-length-required): Say "reverse proxy" and make some minor edits.

Modified:
    subversion/site/publish/docs/release-notes/1.8.html

Modified: subversion/site/publish/docs/release-notes/1.8.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/site/publish/docs/release-notes/1.8.html?rev=1502701&r1=1502700&r2=1502701&view=diff
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--- subversion/site/publish/docs/release-notes/1.8.html (original)
+++ subversion/site/publish/docs/release-notes/1.8.html Fri Jul 12 21:49:14 2013
@@ -2464,7 +2464,8 @@ may be fixed in later 1.8.x releases.</p
 <p>Subversion 1.8.0 has <a href="#neon-deleted">made switch from <tt>neon</tt>
 to <tt>serf</tt> for HTTP access</a>.  The Serf-based HTTP access library would
 use <tt>chunked</tt> transfer encoding for most requests.  When the
-<tt>mod_dav_svn</tt> Subversion server is fronted by a proxy (such as Nginx
+<tt>mod_dav_svn</tt> Subversion server is fronted by a proxy or reverse proxy
+(such as Nginx
 prior to 1.3.9) which responds with a <tt>411 Length Required</tt>, Subversion
 would sometimes either treat this as a fatal error, such as:</p>
 
@@ -2490,14 +2491,15 @@ svn: E175004: The PROPFIND response did 
 Subversion 1.8.1, when it is released.  The following information should be
 considered subject to change until this notice is removed.</em></p>
 
-<p>Subversion 1.8.1 fixes this issue by detecting whether <tt>chunked</tt>
-requests are supported automatically at the set up of a session.  This is done
+<p>Subversion 1.8.1 fixes this issue by detecting automatically
+whether <tt>chunked</tt>
+requests are supported at the set up of a session.  This is done
 by issuing one additional request at the start of the connection.</p>
 
 <p>We expect that the default configuration of Subversion 1.8.1+ will work well
 out of the box for most users.  A <tt>http-detect-chunking</tt> option has been
 added to the <tt>~/.subversion/servers</tt> (Windows:
-<tt>%APPDATA%\Subversion/servers</tt> file.  Users who wish to avoid the
+<tt>%APPDATA%\Subversion\servers</tt> file.  Users who wish to avoid the
 additional request may set that option to <tt>yes</tt> or <tt>no</tt> in order
 to short-circuit the additional request and avoid making it.  We recommend not
 to set that option (or to set it to its default value, <tt>auto</tt>) unless