Re: BIND issue: 3.1-clarify-resource-id

Sounds good to me.

Cheers,
Geoff

w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org wrote on 11/11/2007 02:39:15 PM:

> 
> (see 
> <http://www.webdav.org/bind/draft-ietf-webdav-bind-latest.html#rfc.
> issue.3.1-clarify-resource-id>)
> 
> This one came up when Yaron asked for a way to create a new binding 
> without risking a race condition (where the URI given in the <href> 
> element is re-mapped to a different resource in the meantime).
> 
> Turns out that BIND does not require the <href> to use an HTTP URI -- so 

> it would be possible to use the value of the DAV:resource-id instead, 
> such as in
> 
> BIND /CollY HTTP/1.1
> Host: www.example.com
> Content-Type: application/xml; charset="utf-8"
> Content-Length: xxx
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
> <D:bind xmlns:D="DAV:">
>     <D:segment>bar.html</D:segment>
>     <D:href>urn:uuid:6ed638d6-908d-11dc-9f44-0015c5140153</D:href>
> </D:bind>
> 
> Of course that may not be possible with all servers (basically it 
> requires the server to be able to internally *resolve* the resource-id).
> 
> This may not been clear previously, so the proposal is to add the 
> following note to the definition of DAV:resource-id:
> 
> "Note: by definition, the URI specified in the DAV:resource-id property 
> always is an alternate URI for that resource."
> 
> BR, Julian
> 
> 
>