RE: Proposal for Merge Header and Attribute

The Merge header specifies no action. It is strictly a description. It
is the clients way of saying "The following resource is the result of
merging the following resources."
	Yaron

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Roy T. Fielding [SMTP:fielding@kiwi.ICS.UCI.EDU]
> Sent:	Tuesday, March 25, 1997 11:45 AM
> To:	Yaron Goland
> Cc:	w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
> Subject:	Re: Proposal for Merge Header and Attribute 
> 
> >There is currently no mechanism for the user to inform the server
> that
> >the entity they are PUTing is the result of a merge between a number
> of
> >other resources.
> 
> Then define Derived-From such that it consists of a list of URL/Etag
> or Content-Version pairs.  "Merge" would mix action with description.
> 
> .....Roy