Re: "stable" href's

From: Eric Sedlar (esedlar@us.oracle.com)
Date: Thu, Jan 20 2000

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    From: "Eric Sedlar" <esedlar@us.oracle.com>
    To: "Geoffrey M. Clemm" <geoffrey.clemm@rational.com>, <ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org>
    Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 20:29:25 -0800
    Subject: Re: "stable" href's
    
    I've been thinking about the idea of a "fixed" binding within a collection
    (a boolean property associated with a link) for caching purposes.  Does it
    really have to be an entire URL?
    
    --Eric
    
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Geoffrey M. Clemm" <geoffrey.clemm@rational.com>
    To: <ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org>
    Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 8:02 PM
    Subject: "stable" href's
    
    
    >
    > After thinking for a while about Neil's question about whether a
    > MOVE can be applied to a revision, etc., I now believe that it would
    > be worthwhile for us to define which properties contain "stable"
    > URL's, i.e. URL's allocated by the server that cannot be modified
    > by a client with a MOVE request.
    >
    > Unless anyone objects, I propose to make a pass through the protocol
    > identifying those properties which I believe identify stable hrefs.
    >
    > The value to a client is that it can cache these names with the
    > guarantee that another client cannot MOVE them somewhere else.  A
    > server can of course chose (or be forced) to break these bindings, but
    > there's nothing we can do about that.
    >
    > Comments?
    >
    > Cheers,
    > Geoff
    >
    >