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Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 09:47:25 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200004081347.JAA06432@tantalum.atria.com>
From: "Geoffrey M. Clemm" <geoffrey.clemm@rational.com>
To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org
Subject: Re: Revision of a stable-URL versioned resource
From: "Tim Ellison/OTT/OTI" <Tim_Ellison@oti.com>
> Assume that I get the stable resource URl for a member bound to a
> collection -- how can I ask the server what revision would be selected?
I know our server will not answer questions like this on stable
URL's, i.e. workspace revision selection is done only on user URL
space, not on the stable URL space (which are really just database
id's).
<tim/>I'm surprised that this is not part of the normal processing
for a server, to resolve the URL to a versioned resource, then
figure out which revision of that versioned resource is selected by
a workspace. Given that the versioned resource has a stable URL,
resolving to the versioned resource via a stable URL would be
'easier' (i.e., just a database id look-up).
I misunderstood Tim's question. Yes, having the server do version
selection (i.e. with a Workspace or Revision-Selector header) on
a stable URL is very reasonable (and desireable). I was just thinking
about the case where no revision of a particular versioned resource
has been specified for a workspace. In this case, you would get
an error if you tried to do a request with a stable URL to that
versioned resource and that workspace in the Workspace header.
Cheers,
Geoff