Re: Proposal for Merge Header and Attribute from Roy T. Fielding on 1997-03-25 (w3c-dist-auth@w3.org from January to March 1997)

From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@kiwi.ICS.UCI.EDU>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 11:44:59 -0800
To: Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>
cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Message-ID: <9703251145.aa23542@paris.ics.uci.edu>

>There is currently no mechanism for the user to inform the server that
>the entity they are PUTing is the result of a merge between a number of
>other resources.

Then define Derived-From such that it consists of a list of URL/Etag
or Content-Version pairs.  "Merge" would mix action with description.

.....Roy

Received on Tuesday, 25 March 1997 15:19:15 UTC