- From: Stefan Eissing <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de>
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 09:02:45 +0200
- To: "Daniel Brockman" <daniel@brockman.nu>
- Cc: "Israel Viente" <israel_viente@il.vio.com>, <uri@w3.org>
Am Mittwoch, 27.08.03, um 21:40 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb Daniel Brockman: > > Israel Viente wrote: >> Can a URI reference to a folder and not a file ? >> How can you distinguish between a file URI and a folder one ? > > As I understand it, any URL ending with a slash identifies a directory, > while any other identifies either a file or a directory. That would be true for file: URIs. For other URI schemes you generally cannot deduce such a thing. Pure HTTP does not have the concept of a "file" or "directory". A client makes a GET on the URI and will get a representation (or 404 or something else). WebDAV, as extension of HTTP, defines "collections" which behave like folders in a file system. A client performs a PROPFIND request and asks the server for the type of the resource. //Stefan
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