Re: Deletes and Constraints

Doug Davis wrote:

> > Why not just lock the resource and overwrite it contents?
>
> Because the old and the new resources are different resources.  If, at some
> point in the future, someone asked for the 'old' resource by UUID I don't want
> it to be found.

I'm unclear on this scenario.  Where did they get that UUID, and why would the
old resource still be stored under it (or anywhere) after being overwritten?

Are the old & new at two separate http: URLs?

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Received on Monday, 27 July 1998 18:41:46 UTC