RE: Attributes in Prelim DAV Spec

I am going to speak some serious heresy here but the more I think about
it the less I like attributes. I am starting to get this horrible
feeling of impending doom and its name is LDAP. Might not providing a
means to access LDAP through HTTP (sorta of like what happened with FTP
over HTTP and Cern Proxies) save us a whole world of pain? It also
neatly solves our search problem. O.k. not neatly, but at least it
leverages a lot of currently existing work.
				Yaron

>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Daniel W. Connolly [SMTP:connolly@beach.w3.org]
>Sent:	Monday, November 11, 1996 11:46 AM
>To:	Yaron Goland
>Cc:	'Charlie Brooks'; 'w3c-dist-auth@w3.org'
>Subject:	Re: Attributes in Prelim DAV Spec 
>
>In message
><c=US%a=_%p=msft%l=RED-44-MSG-961111190130Z-30364@INET-02-IMC.micros
>oft.com>, Yaron Goland writes:
>>Nothing. It's a question of aesthetics. 
>
>Using <> characters will be expensive in deployment.
>If we all we get is nicer looking URLs, then I think it's
>not worth it.
>
>But I think there is somthing to it: if we adopt Charlie's
>suggestion, then what about existing URLs with ; in them.
>That is, suppose I've got a document I've been publishing
>as:
>	http://foo.org/docs;id=27
>
>for years, and now I want to add attribute functionality
>to my service. What's the address of the 'author' address
>of the doc above? Is it:
>
>	http://foo.org/docs;id=27;attribute=author
>
>I suppose that could work, but it make the server's job pretty hard:
>the server might have to try lots of different ways of splitting the
>URL between the attribute part and the base resouce part.
>
>Worse yet: what if somebody is already using the name:
>
>	http://foo.org/docs;attribute=XYZ
>
>for something else? Is that a problem?
>
>Dan
>
>>>From:	Charlie Brooks [SMTP:cbrooks@osf.org]
>>>Sent:	Monday, November 11, 1996 9:03 AM
>>>To:	w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
>>>Subject:	RE: Attributes in Prelim DAV Spec
>>>
>>>At 08:44 AM 11/11/96 PST, Judith Slein wrote:
>>>>
>>>>URI = (absoluteURI | relativeURI) *("<" Attribute ">") ["#" fragment]
>>>>
>>>
>>>What problems would arise if we were to utilize existing URI syntax instead
>>>of inventing something new? What about 
>>>
>>>	http://host/some/path;attribute=Abstract.author

Received on Monday, 11 November 1996 19:18:42 UTC