- From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 17:46:24 -0800
- To: ccjason@us.ibm.com, WEBDAV WG <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
> Jim said... > > > The DAV spec. follows the convention of the HTTP spec. for DELETE, which > is > > that DELETE doesn't just break the mapping between URL and resource, it > also > > deletes the resource as well. As a result, it made sense, when > extending > > DELETE to collections, to delete all resources as well as breaking the > > mapping between URLs and resources. > > And in light of the existance of references and the fact that the resource > to URI mapping is no longer 1:1 (at least in this thread), do you still > think that deletion of the resource is the appropriate > extrapolation of the > HTTP behavior? > > Jason. > Yes, I do still feel that deletion of the resource is the correct behavior. The editors of the HTTP spec. were well aware that the URI to resource mapping could be more than 1:1 when they wrote the language for DELETE for individual resources. I feel that if different semantics are desired, then a different method should be defined -- perhaps one called UNMAP, which has the semantics of removing the mapping between a URI and its resource, leaving the resource unaffected. But, I don't think such a method should be introduced into the WebDAV Distributed Authoring Protocol. If you wish, you could write up an Internet-Draft describing this feature. - Jim
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