- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:55:35 +0100
- To: Ken Murchison <murch@andrew.cmu.edu>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On 2014-12-18 16:23, Ken Murchison wrote: > All, > > I'd like to get some feedback on draft-murchison-webdav-prefer > <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-murchison-webdav-prefer-07> , > specifically Section 3 > <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-murchison-webdav-prefer-07#section-3> > (the rest of the document is truly WebDAV specific). Per a request from > the Apple calendar client folks, we'd like to extend > Prefer:return=representation > <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7240#section-4.2> to apply to a > conditional PUT request that fails with a 412 (Precondition Failed) > response. This eliminates the need for a subsequent GET to fetch the > current representation of a resource that failed to update because of a > validator mismatch. I view this as analogous to Get + If-Range. > ... To make this useful, the response would also need to return the new ETag, right? Best regards, Julian
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