RE: HOW_TO_IDENTIFY_LOCK_OWNER

> From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org
> [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Jason Crawford
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 3:36 PM
> To: Lisa Dusseault
> Cc: Daniel Brotsky; Clemm, Geoff; Julian Reschke; w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org
> Subject: RE: HOW_TO_IDENTIFY_LOCK_OWNER
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> > (b) Add it to a DAV extension.
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> Given the current grammar, have we left a route to do this?   Not as a
> child of DAV:lockinfo I believe.  Perhaps as a child of DAV:owner?

Sure. WebDAV explicitly states that servers and clients MUST ignore unknown
element.

> I believe one of the things we were going to do was define what it meant
> for the server to maintain DAV:owner.  At least one person thought there
> was some ambiguity there.  Do we still feel that this is an issue?

Yes.

1) The examples in RFC2518 do *not* preserve DAV:owner (watch out for
whitespace!).

2) We currently don't have a clear definition about *what* needs to
preserved as a property value (this is already on the issues list). Whatever
applies to a property value should reply to the DAV:owner element as well.

Julian

Received on Tuesday, 29 January 2002 09:49:56 UTC