Re: Question:is vresourceid copied?
Geoffrey M. Clemm (gclemm@tantalum.atria.com)
Wed, 19 May 1999 18:02:45 -0400
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 18:02:45 -0400
Message-Id: <9905192202.AA04800@tantalum>
From: "Geoffrey M. Clemm" <gclemm@tantalum.atria.com>
To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990519100727.00a38070@192.168.254.128>
Subject: Re: Question:is vresourceid copied?
The impression that a MOVE is a COPY+DELETE is the unfortunate result
of some wording in the WebDAV spec. The undefined "fixup" step was
intended to fix everything that a literal COPY+DELETE would have broken,
and changing the DAV:vresourceid of the "copy" back to be that of
the original resource is part of the "fixup".
I'm hoping that this misleading wording will be fixed in the next draft.
Cheers,
Geoff
From: "Jim Davis" <jdavis@coursenet.com>
At 04:26 AM 5/19/99 -0400, Geoffrey M. Clemm wrote:
>
> From: "Jim Davis" <jdavis@coursenet.com>
>
> The draft (2.9) says that DAV:vresourceid must be preserved by a MOVE.
> What about a COPY?
>
>A COPY creates a new resource, so the DAV:vresourceid would not be
>preserved.
But isn't MOVE a COPY + DELETE? If the COPY creates a new resource, how is
DAV:vresourceid preserved?