- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:41:37 +0100
- To: Werner Baumann <werner.baumann@onlinehome.de>
- CC: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Werner Baumann wrote: > > > Julian Reschke wrote: >> Werner Baumann wrote: >>> ... >>> Apart from the method the intermediary cache would have to include >>> the DEPTH header and a list of requested properties into the key. And >>> what would be the cache hit rate? >>> ... >> >> It could be quite good, depending on what clients do; such as >> refreshing a collection view over and over again (think explorer-like >> clients). >> > Conditional PROPFIND would be very useful for user agents (i.e. WebDAV > clients). But the problem is RFC 4918, which does not define anything > like a cache validation mechanism for properties (and not for > collections). I don't think this missing functionality can be added by > some extension, but it would require a revision of RFC 4918. > > I doubt that it would be very useful for intermediaries. WebDAV access > is usually restricted to a comparably small set of users. I also believe that it would be both tricky and a lot of work to add all the additional infrastructure for validators. Thus, <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-reschke-http-get-location-01.html> -- which essentially makes PROPFIND results GETtable. BR, Julian
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