Add direct access to the raw content in the repository

[Christian Boos]

As discussed on the ​Mailing List, this is a feature which is quite useful for being able to have direct access to the HTML resources in the repository (like documentation), when using the ?format=raw URL suffix is not wanted, as it doesn't get propagated by relative links within those documents.

Therefore I propose to add:

• /source request dispatcher, for accessing the raw source
• /source-rXYZ request dispatcher, for accessing the raw source at the specified revision
• the raw-source: TracLink prefix, for easily creating links to the above URLs, raw-source:/trunk/README.html or raw-source:/trunk/README.html@234 when specifying a revision.

The implementation will be based on ​this patch.

[Christian Boos]

Implementation of the feature; apply the patch like this: cd trac/trunk; patch -p1 < raw_source-r3622.patch

[anonymous]

Maybe /source/HEAD and /source/r123 would be REST-ier.

[Christian Boos]

Sounds good: the first "path" element should be mandatory and interpreted as a revision number.

[Christian Boos]

See rather #3083.

[Christian Boos]

Well, #3083 was more about describing a defect in IExplorer that would incidentally benefit from the feature proposed here, so I'm reopening this ticket so that it will get listed as a new feature for 0.11.

[Christian Boos]

Implemented in [4242].