Re: [Groupdav] [Fwd: draft-reschke-http-addmember-00]

Helge Hess wrote:
> Hi Julian,
> 
> On Feb 15, 2005, at 12:59, Julian Reschke wrote:
> 
>> recently different communities (caldav/groupdav, atompup (protocol
>> part)) have been discussing how to use HTTP to author new resources when
>> the URL namespace is completely server-controlled, thus PUT just doesn't
>> fit well.
> 
> 
> I still disagree (apparently CalDAV does too), but anyway ;-)
> 
>> I've submitted a first draft as "draft-reschke-http-addmember-00". Note
>> that it also contains an appendix covering possible alternative 
>> approaches.
> 
> 
> If we create a new method, I would like to ask for the possibility to 
> return multiple resources. The one situation which doesn't fit well with 
> PUT+location is a PUT of a cyclic event which is flattened by the server 
> to multiple resources.

So how would you define the semantics for that in a generic way? A 
multi-part request body?

(please follow up on ietf-http-wg@w3.org)

Best regards, Julian


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