- From: ChanMaxthon <xcvista@me.com>
- Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2016 13:18:25 +0800
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
I think you can generate a name, HEAD it, and then COPY it if you get a 404. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 1, 2016, at 02:10, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: > >> On 2016-10-31 18:49, Graham Leggett wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> According to https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4918#section-9.8, the COPY method allows me to make a copy of a resource, but only as long as I know the destination URL of my copy: "The Destination header MUST be present.ˇ±. >> >> What I need to implement is functionality that matches the ˇ°Duplicateˇ± menu item in the MacOS Finder. In other words, I want to make a copy of an URL, but I want the server to decide on the URL to the COPY. >> >> Is this possible while at the same time being RFC compliant? >> >> If I was to set the Destination header to the same URL as the source, or perhaps the parent collection of the source, would that make sense? >> >> Regards, >> Graham > > Well, there is no standard functionality for that. You can sure experiment if you control both client and server (I'd probably try "path/*" as destination URI). > > Best regards, Julian > >
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