- From: Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 14:57:01 -0700
- To: "'Judith Slein'" <slein@wrc.xerox.com>, ejw@ics.uci.edu
- Cc: "'w3c-dist-auth@w3.org'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Clearly we can at best require that servers reply with but a single level. This is the minimum requirement for interoperability. Servers are free to return more levels if they want but a client can not depend upon it. Yaron > -----Original Message----- > From: Judith Slein [SMTP:slein@wrc.xerox.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 1997 7:10 AM > To: ejw@ics.uci.edu > Cc: 'Judith Slein'; 'w3c-dist-auth@w3.org' > Subject: RE: Collections > > At 03:45 PM 9/16/97 PDT, Jim Whitehead wrote: > > > > >> To reconcile the two specifications, I think (1) it would be very > useful > >for > >> us to provide an index that describes the entire hierarchy rather > than > >just > >> one level. > > > >The issue here is how to bound the size of the index results. DRP is > able > >to bound the size of their index results because this index file can > be > >manually created, and because the creator of the index file can > ensure that > >it will never become too large. I don't think DRP is suggesting that > their > >index files be used as a general purpose mechanism for retrieving the > > >contents of all collections. Rather, DRP is interested in getting a > >consistent configuration of resources (and their content identifiers) > for > >each "channel," which is presumably a smaller set than all possible > >resources on the server. > > > >My fear with returning a full depth infinity index for all cases is > that > >some cases (e.g., collections high up in a hierarchy) may return very > large > >results, which could cause a problem for low-memory clients. > > > > I see that this is a problem. I wonder whether we could let the > client > specify one level or depth=infinity in the request, or perhaps specify > a > maximum size for the response. > > --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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