RE: [long] Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-webdav-versioning-01.txt

> Larry: Is the following statement true?
> 
> If we defined a collection that contains all revisions of a versioned
> resource, where a member of that collection is named by its
> revision-id, then it would be within these guidelines (i.e. it would
> not be URL-munging) for a client to take the collection URL, extend it
> with a revision-id, and use the resulting URL to locate the desired
> revision.

No, I think that doing so would be an extension of the currently
known required URL-munging methods.

The URL-munging you're suggesting has some difficulties. For example,
what is the datatype of a "revision-id". Is it a number? A string?
US-ASCII? Can a "revision-id" be a string in Japanese? What is the
encoding of the munged-URL?

Larry

Received on Friday, 5 March 1999 18:40:21 UTC