Re: LINK support

On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Ralph R. Swick wrote:

> Do you mean you'd like to know what other resources (documents) on the
> Web contain LINKs with a destination equal to the specified URI?  If so,
> what do you suggest as the scope of the search?  Just the same server?
> A specified list of servers?  All servers on the Web?
> 
> If you mean that you'd like to retrieve the LINKs *stored with* the
> specified URI (and therefore whose destinations are other resources)
> this is much better defined, and within the scope of WEBDAV.
>

This is fine. I had in mind a request that would return the object itself
if it was on the same server, and a URI otherwise. Returning just the URI
in all cases may be a better design. I'll have to think about it.
 
> I'd resist the temptation to turn WEBDAV into a general distributed
> database protocol :-)
> 

Good point. I didn't express myself very well.

> -Ralph
> 

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Received on Friday, 31 January 1997 10:20:22 UTC