- From: Lisa Dusseault <ldusseault@xythos.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 18:23:34 -0400
- To: "Dan Brotsky" <dbrotsky@adobe.com>, <w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org>
> Case 1: Both source and destination URLs/resources are controlled by the > same "server semantics/process," and thus the source server can do a > COPY by associating a resource with the destination URL that behaves > exactly the same as the source resource under all variant forms of > GET/PROPFIND (modulo locks not being copied and the location being > different). In this case MOVE is, in fact, indistinguishable to WebDAV > clients from a successful COPY followed by a successful DELETE. > (Although perhaps delta-V clients might be able to distinguish...) Not only deltaV clients may be able to distinguish, but ACL clients could. For example, in Xythos WFS, when a file is copied the server initializes the ACLs like a new file. On the other hand when a file is moved, the server copies the ACLs intact. Xythos WFS also tracks access logs on files, and when a file is moved we want to keep the access logs on it, but when it's copied we don't want to duplicate the access logs, just keep the access logs for the original. Overall, the new distinction between MOVE and COPY seems more often useful than problematic. Lisa
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