RE: is DAV:getcontenttype read only?

I believe in our implementation, the property is writable. The server will
save the Content-type included with a PUT, but a client can also change that
value later (via PROPPATCH) without having to retransmit the whole resource.

Alex

-----Original Message-----
From: John Stracke [mailto:francis@netscape.com]
Sent: Friday, December 18, 1998 2:26 PM
To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Subject: Re: is DAV:getcontenttype read only?


Jim Davis wrote (some time ago--I'm still catching up from email that came
in
while I was on sabbatical):

> The spec (13.5) does not say whether the DAV:getcontenttype property is
> readonly or not.  In mod_dav it is, in PyDAV it is not.
>
> I claim it should not be read-only, as the client (who stored the resource
> via PUT) has better knowledge of the server (which can, at best, be
relying
> on resource name heuristics to guess the content type).

Shouldn't the server save the value of the Content-Type: that came in on the
PUT?

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