Re: draft-murchison-webdav-prefer

On 2014-12-18 16:23, Ken Murchison wrote:
> All,
>
> I'd like to get some feedback on draft-murchison-webdav-prefer
> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-murchison-webdav-prefer-07> ,
> specifically Section 3
> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-murchison-webdav-prefer-07#section-3>
> (the rest of the document is truly WebDAV specific).  Per a request from
> the Apple calendar client folks, we'd like to extend
> Prefer:return=representation
> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7240#section-4.2> to apply to a
> conditional PUT request that fails with a 412 (Precondition Failed)
> response.  This eliminates the need for a subsequent GET to fetch the
> current representation of a resource that failed to update because of a
> validator mismatch.  I view this as analogous to Get + If-Range.
> ...

To make this useful, the response would also need to return the new 
ETag, right?

Best regards, Julian

Received on Thursday, 18 December 2014 15:56:11 UTC