RE: bind draft issues

> From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org
> [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Stefan Eissing
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 9:53 AM
> To: Clemm, Geoff
> Cc: WebDAV
> Subject: Re: bind draft issues
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> Am Freitag, 07.03.03, um 00:50 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb Clemm, Geoff:
> > How about the following statement about PROPFIND:
> >
> > "If two URLs are mapped to the same resource, the property
> >  values returned by PROPFIND on those two URLs MUST be
> >  identical."
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> Hmm, I think I know what you mean, however there are cases
> where you might want this to break:
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> 1) variants. /news/english/ and /news/german/ might be the same
>    resource with different content based on the "access" URL. All
>    get* properties will probably vary. (They can already vary on
>    a resource with a single binding)

That would mean that entities may vary based on the request URI. Is this the
case?

> 2) live props with URI References can report different relative uri
>    references. They are semantically equivalent, but the string value
>    of such a property will differ.

For instance?

> What exactly is it, you want to prevent to happen?

People falling into the trap of believing in "URL properties", I guess.


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