Re: If: header and "parent" resource checking

From: Geoffrey M. Clemm (geoffrey.clemm@rational.com)
Date: Mon, May 29 2000

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    Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 23:24:16 -0400 (EDT)
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    From: "Geoffrey M. Clemm" <geoffrey.clemm@rational.com>
    To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org, w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org
    Subject: Re: If: header and "parent" resource checking
    
    
       From: jamsden@us.ibm.com
    
       What does everyone else think? Do we need locking and versioning together?
       We're trying to make them work together, and leverage locking semantics
       whenever possible. But it hasn't been easy, and its cost us some
       flexibility.
    
    This question has two parts:
    
    - If you are writing a versioning client, do you care whether your
    versioning server gives you any locking capability (and if so, should
    it be compatible with locking defined for non-versioning servers)?
    
    - If you are writing a versioning server, do you care that versioning
    unaware locking clients work against your server?
    
    In my case, I care about the former, to control access of multiple
    clients to the same working resource, and I care about the latter,
    because there are some very important versioning unaware locking clients.
    
    Cheers,
    Geoff