- From: Judith Slein <slein@wrc.xerox.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 07:15:24 PDT
- To: Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "'Judith Slein'" <slein@wrc.xerox.com>, Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>, "'ejw@ics.uci.edu'" <ejw@ics.uci.edu>, "'WEBDAV Mailing List'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
At 12:49 PM 8/8/97 PDT, Yaron Goland wrote: >Retrieving Properties without knowing the name of the property's >location on a resource - You use GETPROPS for this, this replaces >SEARCH. GETPROPS accepts a list of property names and returns the value >of those properties on the specified resource. "GET bar;DAV/" is now >officially dead. The server folks were just too disturbed by having >their namespace hijacked, in violation of the general principal that >URLs are opaque, for that to be a sellable idea. > >I also looked into allowing for wildcarding on property names but it >turns out that it is unbelievably inefficient on just about every >implementation available. Just about everyone implements properties as a >flat list so wildcarding on names would require a linear search of that >list. This would basically shut down a thread on the server until the >search was done, this has a very serious impact on scalability. There >will be however, a way to say "Give me ALL properties". Great! As long as there's a "Give me all properties", I'll be satisfied. --Judy Name: Judith A. Slein E-Mail: slein@wrc.xerox.com Internal Phone: 8*222-5169 External Phone: (716) 422-5169 Fax: (716) 265-7133 MailStop: 105-50C
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