A question on Versioning-unaware clients
SOM Bandyopadhyay (SBANDYO@novell.com)
Tue, 03 Aug 1999 17:58:23 -0600
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Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 17:58:23 -0600
From: "SOM Bandyopadhyay" <SBANDYO@novell.com>
To: <ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org>
Subject: A question on Versioning-unaware clients
In draft-ietf-webdav-versioning-02 its mentioned that
"Webdav versioning includes:
automatic versioning support for versioning-unaware clients"
My question is:
1. Is this applicable to versioning-unaware clients which is accessing the file system thru' non-HTTP methods ( e.g. FTP )?
If yes, then:
1.1 Do we expect all FTP servers ( and others ) to talk to the versioning component?
I don't think that will be acceptable solution at all..
If no, then:
1.2 how does this work? If a versioning-aware client did a CHECKOUT on a file and versionig-unaware-non-HTTP client wants to open the file in "read-write" mode? Will this operation fail?
Whatever is the case, spec is very unclear here....
thanks, som.