Re: SWAP Example (to extend or not)

1. what does one do when one wishes to support both protocols. wouldn't that
argue for uniform implementation?

2. does the WebDAV argument re authorization carry no significance here?


Larry Masinter wrote:
> 
> 
> I don't think it is appropriate to extend HTTP for SWAP
> in the same way that HTTP was extended for WebDAV. WebDAV is
> a set of extensions to HTTP for Web distributed authoring and versioning,
> and the extensions being supported are appropriate for things
> which might otherwise be accessed via web protocols.
> 
> I think SWAP's situation is much more like IPP's, where the
> services are being accessed over the Internet are not otherwise
> Web resources that one would access using a web browser, and
> that using a single generic POST method (going POSTal), and putting
> the actual operation in the body, makes more sense.

Received on Thursday, 3 December 1998 09:45:41 UTC