- From: Kenji Takahashi <kt@nttlabs.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 21:19:24 -0800
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
- cc: kt@nttlabs.com
Yaron (or anyone), I think I am coufused but... Do we need two PUTs to create a new non-HTML resource: one for attributes headers of the resource and the other for the content of the resource? Or the WEBDAV draft excludes non-HTML resources (although it does not explcitly say so)? To handle non-HTML resources properly, I think it would be better to transmit meta-information (including attributes) as HTTP headers. Because you can create a resource with one PUT. The draft says in 2.2.1, "attributes headers may grow to very large sizes and may contain octet data", but I don't understand why we shoudn't send very large headers or if octet data are really needed? Also sending HTTP headers in the body of the entities is obviously misuse by definition. I think clearly defined methods, such as a method for set attribute values, are better thatn the misuse of (or confusing usage of) existing methods... Also the draft proposes significant additions to URI. I think URI should be opaque as discussed in the early time in this maling list (remember the "URL;ver=" discussion?). Actually the draft confuses me - I don't quite understand whether it describes about HTTP headers or HTML head parts. Best regards, Kenji
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