- From: Fisher Mark <FisherM@exch1.indy.tce.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 10:42:58 -0500
- To: "'Jim Whitehead'" <ejw@ics.uci.edu>, "'Jon Radoff'" <jradoff@novalink.com>
- Cc: "'w3c-dist-auth@w3.org'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
>Based on this statements can it also be assumed that an intention >of WebDAV would be for it to be possible to perform WebDAV methods >without new client software, e.g., use an HTML form to acquire >information about desired methods and parameters which then feeds into >the Web server a request which can be fulfilled? In other words, >could the end-user interactive elements of the WebDAV infrastructure be >centralized at the server, utilizing the Web browser as simply a >communications channel? Could I use IE? Netscape 2.0? Mosaic? >Lynx (only kidding). FWIW, trials with the 32-bit MSIE 3.02 reveal that if you specify a method other than GET or POST in a form, the method is changed to GET. This was tested with both Jigsaw 1.0a5 and CERN 3.0 as Web servers. ========================================================== Mark Leighton Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics fisherm@indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN "ViaCrypt? Vhy not!"
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