- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:04:54 +0200
- To: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
- CC: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > On mån, 2007-08-13 at 09:37 +0200, Julian Reschke wrote: >> Henrik Nordstrom wrote: >>> On sön, 2007-08-12 at 21:02 +0200, Julian Reschke wrote: >>> >>>> With the amount of OPTIONS requests sent out today by WebDAV clients, >>>> I'd really be surprised if there are important pieces of software left >>>> that cause side effects upon OPTIONS. >>> There is pleny, but also very unlikely WebDAV or PATCH would be used on >>> such resources. >> WebDAV clients routinely use OPTIONS to detect whether they *can* use >> WebDAV on a resource. Think Microsoft Office (and don't tell me that's >> not widely used :-). > > Yes, but it requires the user to take some action to activate the WebDAV > client, which he isn't very likely to do against random CGI URLs other > websites. That's not really true. The Office WebDAV stack kicks in as soon as you navigate to an office document. > ... Best regards, Julian
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