- From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@cse.ucsc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 18:54:27 -0800
- To: <ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org>
Marshalling difficulty is a red herring here, and avoids the real issues concerning the semantics of CHECKIN. I think the principled answer is that CHECKIN with body duplicates the functionality of PUT, and this is a bad design. - Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: ietf-dav-versioning-request@w3.org > [mailto:ietf-dav-versioning-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Geoffrey M. > Clemm > Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 8:19 PM > To: ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org > Subject: Re: FW: DeltaV doesn't support a true client workspace > > > > From: "Fay, Chuck" <CFay@filenet.com> > > ... > > CHECKIN /foo.html (with new content in the request body) > > I don't see why there should any big objection to this > proposal, except on > religious grounds that any real versioning server *must* provide > intermediate storage of working versions. > > I raised the (non-religious :-) objection in my previous response that > this requires that every argument for the CHECKIN request be a new > header. I consider this completely unacceptable, since unlike XML > elements, headers are in a single global namespace so it would be > infeasible for a server to safely extend the CHECKIN request. > > Cheers, > Geoff >
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