- From: Daniel Brotsky <dbrotsky@adobe.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:04:53 -0800
- To: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: <w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org>
On Monday, February 18, 2002, at 06:29 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> currently RFC2518 is silent on this issue.
>
> However, deltaV says 1.5 [1]: "Although WebDAV request and response
> bodies
> can be extended by arbitrary XML elements, which can be ignored by the
> message recipient, an XML element in the DAV namespace MUST NOT be used
> in
> the request or response body of a versioning method unless that XML
> element
> is explicitly defined in an IETF RFC."
>
> I think something similar needs to be added to the revision to RFC2518.
I agree.
>
> Looking at current implementations I notice that the Microsoft Webfolder
> client (sigh!) does a PROPFIND on no less than then 10 proprietary
> properties placed into the DAV: namespace ([2]), of which it only seems
> to
> *use* one (DAV:ishidden). Without wiring special knowledge about these
> attributes into a server, it will usually have to consult the resource's
> dead properties (just to find out that these don't exist). Would it be
> permissible to assume that properties in the DAV: namespace *never* are
> dead
> properties, allowing to skip this step?
I think so.
dan
>
> Julian
>
>
> [1]
> <http://www.webdav.org/deltav/protocol/draft-ietf-deltav-
> versioning-20.1.htm
> #_Toc524830510>
> [2]
> <http://www.greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/webdavfaq.html#ANSWER-mswebfolder-prop
> rietary-properties>
>
Received on Monday, 25 February 2002 17:04:29 UTC