- From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@soe.ucsc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:04:39 -0800
- To: "'Julian Reschke'" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: "'Webdav WG'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org>
A few comments on extending the functionality defined in -addmember-00: 1) One problem clients currently encounter with PUT is determining whether they have permission to write to a specific location. At present, a client must submit a PUT (or ADDMEMBER) with the entire entity body, then wait for the response, or the authentication challenge. It would be very nice to have a TESTPUT/TESTADDMEMBER method that sees whether a write (via PUT or ADDMEMBER) would succeed, or if an authentication challenge is needed. Yes, a server supporting ACLs could be queries to see if writing were allowed, but it still doesn't provide an easy way to pre-determine the authentication information. 2) It would be very helpful to allow ADDMEMBER to have atomic PUT+PROPPATCH capabilities, to write both the resource and its metadata in one action. - Jim
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