RE: SWAP Example (to extend or not)

> 1. what does one do when one wishes to support both protocols. 
> wouldn't that argue for uniform implementation?

Not particularly. It's not clear that your implementation effort
is reduced if you have to modify an existing implementation to
add more functionality.
 
> 2. does the WebDAV argument re authorization carry no significance here?

Not that I can see.

You likely should review draft-iesg-using-http-00.txt, as well;
it's an initial draft about the policy on 'using HTTP for other
protocols', which seems to be what some people desire for SWAP.

Received on Thursday, 3 December 1998 19:49:25 UTC