Re: I-D ACTION:draft-reschke-http-get-location-00.txt

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On ons, 2007-08-01 at 10:20 +0200, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>>> ...
>>> It's a bit special indeed as it doesn't act on the requested resource
>>> itself.. For PROPFIND the requested variant is clearly the PROPFIND
>>> results which is different from the request-URI resource..
>>> ...
>> My understanding was that the requested variant is independent of the 
>> request method.
> 
> Right.. it is. Or at least thats the most intelligble definition of it.
> Doesn't make much sense in PROPFIND, but then a whole lot doesn't..

Right.

> So a new header is required for PROPFIND to be able to return the ETag
> of the PROPFIND entity. I'd propose Content-ETag for this purpose.

If we could use Content-Location for the location (which I don't think), 
I'd be +1 on that.

> I dislike trying to add new "URI" header formats with their own parsing
> requirements, which is my main objection to your new proposed header.

Understood. Note that the header format is borrowed from the "Link" 
header, though.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Monday, 6 August 2007 17:49:24 UTC