- From: Ken Murchison <murch@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:29:16 -0500
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- CC: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Julian Reschke wrote: > On 2013-03-07 15:32, Ken Murchison wrote: >> All, >> >> Its not overly important, but as I was coding this up, I started >> wondering how to categorize this response header in httpbis-22 terms. >> Would this header be considered part of Control Data, Response Context, >> Representation Metadata, or something else? Right now, I'm leaning >> towards Control Data since Prefer is similar to Expect which is >> categorized as a Control. >> >> And while we're at it, what about these WebDAV response headers: >> >> DAV: similar to Allow => Response Context? > > Si. > >> Lock-Token: used in conditional requests => Validator? > > Nope, lock tokens (for the purpose of validation) are passed using "If"... Unless I'm missing something, doesn't the presence of "if" make a method conditional? The execution of state-changing method on a locked resource is conditional upon validation of the correct lock-token in the "If" header (or "Lock-Token" in the case of UNLOCK). -- Kenneth Murchison Principal Systems Software Engineer Carnegie Mellon University
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