- From: Gregory J. Woodhouse <gjw@wnetc.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 07:16:08 -0800 (PST)
- To: "Ralph R. Swick" <swick@www10.w3.org>
- cc: w3c-dist-auth@www10.w3.org
On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Ralph R. Swick wrote: > Do you mean you'd like to know what other resources (documents) on the > Web contain LINKs with a destination equal to the specified URI? If so, > what do you suggest as the scope of the search? Just the same server? > A specified list of servers? All servers on the Web? > > If you mean that you'd like to retrieve the LINKs *stored with* the > specified URI (and therefore whose destinations are other resources) > this is much better defined, and within the scope of WEBDAV. > This is fine. I had in mind a request that would return the object itself if it was on the same server, and a URI otherwise. Returning just the URI in all cases may be a better design. I'll have to think about it. > I'd resist the temptation to turn WEBDAV into a general distributed > database protocol :-) > Good point. I didn't express myself very well. > -Ralph > --- gjw@wnetc.com / http://www.wnetc.com/home.html If you're going to reinvent the wheel, at least try to come to come up with a better one.
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