Re: Optional Backpointers from Targets to References

>Roy, perhaps I misunderstand the context of your statement, but I might
>disagree with your statement that "a WebDAV client has no direct need
>for backpointers..."   I know that I, as a human client using WebDAV,
>might like to know what is referencing a resource.  Perhaps that's
>what you meant by "information discovery".  Feel free to clarify.

Yes, that's what I meant by information discovery.  I place it in that
category particularly because of the scoping issues, since I may want
to search for all the references on server A that refer to a resource
on server B.  There is no difference in performance if I am checking only
for a single resource within the scope of its own server, since the
DASL engine internal to the server can just translate that to a retrieval
of the backpointer property without the client needing to be aware of
that property.

John's answers to your other questions were right on the mark.

....Roy

Received on Friday, 25 September 1998 00:56:19 UTC