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From: Tim_Ellison@oti.com (Tim Ellison OTT)
To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org ('Delta V')
Message-ID: <2000Feb16.170000.1250.1478206@otismtp.ott.oti.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:05:24 -0500
Subject: Members of a collection
To determine the members of a collection on a versioning server, a client
issues a PROPFIND. In a non-versioning world if you are told that /foo/ has
a member /foo/bar then you have a pretty good chance that you can GET
/foo/bar. However, in a versioning world your workspace may not select any
revision of /foo/bar, so you 'see' that /foo/ has a /foo/bar but you get a
404 when you try to GET /foo/bar.
This is going to be particularly interesting for 'browser' type applications
that reveal one layer of the namespace at a time. However, I claim that
this is no different than a non-versioning server showing its members, then
a member being DELETEd before the client GETs it. One difference is that
the versioning anomaly is more likely to happen.
Just an observation.
Tim