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Re: How to handle PROPFIND request with empty <prop> element?

From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:32:38 +0200
Message-ID: <47EF8866.30109@gmx.de>
To: Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca>
CC: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org 

Simon Perreault wrote:
> On Sunday 30 March 2008 05:24:58 Julian Reschke wrote:
>> I'm pretty sure that there's code out there that will fail if <prop> is
>> empty.
> 
> I was just wondering if there was a use case for a PROPFIND on no properties 
> at all (i.e. not having an empty PROPFIND behave as if <allprop/> had been 
> specified). I guess not...

Well, there is: when you really want to only list the collection 
membership, but not any properties of the members.

BR, Julian
Received on Sunday, 30 March 2008 12:33:22 GMT

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