Re: how to specify extension features in response to OPTIONS request

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 10:58:32AM +0100, Julian Reschke wrote:
> > [mailto:ietf-dav-versioning-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Sohn, Matthias
>...
> > is it possible to specify extension features (that are not defined in the
> > DeltaV spec) in the response to a OPTIONS request ?
> 
> It's possible, but I would strongly recommend not to do that.
> 
> If you need a non-intrusive way to signal server extensions, use a custom
> live property.

There was some amount of consensus a while back on the DAV WG list that the
DAV: header should allow Coded-URLs in it. mod_dav took this approach, so an
OPTIONS response looks like:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:10:17 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.19 (Unix) DAV/1.0.2
Content-Length: 0
MS-Author-Via: DAV
Allow: OPTIONS, GET, HEAD, POST, DELETE, TRACE, PROPFIND, PROPPATCH, COPY, MOVE, LOCK, UNLOCK
DAV: 1,2,<http://apache.org/dav/propset/fs/1>
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/plain


Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/