Re: WebDAV and Open Pluggable Edge Services

EDIT is the same thing as GETSRC/Translate.

--Eric

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From: "Stefan Eissing" <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de>
To: <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 4:22 AM
Subject: Re: WebDAV and Open Pluggable Edge Services


>
> Am Donnerstag den, 21. März 2002, um 20:16, schrieb Larry Masinter:
>
> > I'm reviewing the HTTP spec and the Cache-Control: no-transform
> > directive; RFC 2616 section 14.9.5.
> >
> > To prevent transformations of authored content, servers could
> > respond, when the client is "authoring", with a no-transform.
>
> That would set us back to sending Translate headers.
>
> > But I'm less sure of the utility of the Cache-Control: no-transform
> > request; does it mean "don't transform the request" or does
> > it mean "don't transform the response?". And would it apply
> > to an origin server as another way of saying a kind of "translate"?
>
> Hmm, 2616 is only speaking of content (and Content- headers). The
> examples are with server responses.
>
> I think modifying client requests is a no-no. Otherwise I
> hope Internet Explorer sets "no-transform" when I'm online
> shopping...
>
> > Note that authoring clients should be sensitive to
> > Warning 214 (Transformation applied). At least, then
> > there would be some belief that they wouldn't inadvertently
> > try to let the user edit something that wasn't the original
> > source.
>
> Everyday you learn some new HTTP Headers...;)
>
> > I'm not sure how a DAV server would know whether to supply
> > a cache-control: no-transform if clients distinguish between
> > the resource and its source by the "DAV:source" property.
>
> Can a "source" resources (listed in some other resource's
> DAV:source property) have own DAV:source properties?
> Must a resource designated as "source" be editable (e.g. support
> PUT) and will that PUT influence the content of its
> derived resource? When?
>
> I think we need clarification of the "source" concept. When
> do resources have a "source" relation?
> - ASP/JSP pages
> - shtml
> - executables, object files and source code
> - resources derived from a "master" with stylesheets
> - ...
>
> Which of these examples do we want to provide a solution
> for with DAV:source?
>
> > (I was also wondering about the interaction between
> > cache-control: no-transform and the vary header. A response
> > with no-transform and one without no-transform are different.
> > So if the decision to supply no-transform depends on a request
> > header, then should the result Vary by that request header?
>
> I'm not really a fan of new HTTP methods, but just for interest:
> Wouldn't a new method like "EDIT" which retrieves the editable
> content of a resource make our life easier? It could respond
> with a Content-Location where a PUT can be applied...
>
> //Stefan
>
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