Re: can a conditional header field put conditions on resources other than the target resource?

On Jan 25, 2013, at 6:46 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:

> Looking at <http://svn.tools.ietf.org/svn/wg/httpbis/draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p4-conditional.html#precedence>:
> 
> "... Other conditional request header fields, defined by extensions to HTTP, might place conditions on the state of the target resource in general, such as how the If header field in WebDAV has been defined to make a request conditional on the presence or absence of a lock [RFC4918]."
> 
> Actually, "If", as defined in RFC 2518 and 4918 can put conditions on resources other than the target resource, see the "Tagged-list" production in <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc4918.html#if.header.syntax>) -- should we rephrase P4 accordingly?

WTF? (and I just love the last paragraph in that section)

Sure, rephrase it if you can ... maybe 

  s/ in general/, or a group of resources/

....Roy

Received on Friday, 25 January 2013 14:58:55 UTC