AW: Are you using lock discovery?

> [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]Im Auftrag von Jason Crawford
>
> <<
> As I recall, the DAV Explorer client
> <http://www.ics.uci.edu/~webdav/> uses
> lock discovery. I believe it's smart enough to do lock discovery if a
> resource is locked, and DAV Explorer doesn't have the lock token. It then
> tries the lock token on the off chance the requesting principal actually
> owns the lock.
> >>
> Just a tangent...
>
> I'm sure Jim know this, but I'd just like to warn other client developers
> that servers are not obligated to expose the lock-token in the
> lock-discovery property.   Servers might chose not to expose the tokens so
> as to avoid the situation described in section 7.6.  Make sure
> your clients
> can handle a server not returning the lock token in the lock-discovery
> property.

Well, thanks for the warning. Which server(s) would that be? And will
they prevent a client application/operating system/network connection
from crashing or will they have another method to discover locks and
unlock resources?

Stefan