- From: Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 16:18:46 -0800
- To: "'Daniel W. Connolly'" <connolly@beach.w3.org>
- Cc: "'Charlie Brooks'" <cbrooks@osf.org>, "'w3c-dist-auth@w3.org'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
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
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