Re: collection with ordered members

> Or if you prefer it, we could define a body for PUT that servers should
> understand as a compound document, assigning a URL to each component as
> well as to the whole, and requiring them to support INDEX for these
> documents.  We could define the headers to be used for ordering.  We could
> define how MOVE, COPY, and DELETE work for such compound documents.  It
> just seems more straightforward to work collections, since we've got all
> these basic behaviors defined for them.

(Did I send this before?)  'multipart/related' seems like the right
body for PUT (or is it POST) that servers should understand as a
compound document.

It's exactly what is being used for POSTing related compound documents
to email addresses, in the MHTML working group.

Larry
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Received on Friday, 24 October 1997 18:03:23 UTC