Re: RFC 3744: deny-before-grant required?

Yes, that looks like a bug to me as well, and I would fix it as Julian
suggests.
Cheers,
Geoff

Julian wrote on 07/01/2006 04:13:27 AM:
>
> Tim Olsen schrieb:
> >
> > Section 8.1.1
> > (http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc3744.html#acl.preconditions)
> > of RFC 3744 specifies that deny-before-grant is a requirement.  It
> > does not follow this with a condition stating that it only applies if
> > the constraint is set, as is done for grant-only and no-invert.
> >
> > Is this omission of a condition under which this preconditon holds
> > intentional?  Is deny-before-grant a requirement?
>
> I don't think it is, that is, I think you have found a bug in the spec.
>
> So I would propose to change the description to:
>
> "(DAV:deny-before-grant): All non-inherited deny ACEs MUST precede all
> non-inherited grant ACEs. This precondition applies only when the ACL
> restrictions of the resource include the DAV:deny-before-grant
> constraint (defined in Section 5.6.3)."
>
> (Geoff, please confirm :-))