- From: Jim Davis <jdavis@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 13:44:11 PDT
- To: slein@wrc.xerox.com
- Cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Comments on the excellent draft, ctd.. If you are going to use the syntax proposed in the ID "Mandatory Extensions in HTTP" for the method names, you may as well also use the namespace syntax they propose (even though it's ugly) where the Man header specifies not only the URI of the extension set but also a unique (for each extension set within the current method call) prefix for the headers added by that extension set. So e.g. M-PUT /~whitehead/dav/ HTTP/1.1 Host: www.ics.uci.edu Man: "DAV:Coll-headers"; ns=259- 259-Referential-Member: spec08.ref 259-Ref-Target: http://www.ics.uci.edu/... 259-Ref-Integrity: T 259-Position: After requirements.html This will ensure that there is no collision with names of headers introduced by orthogonal extensions. Note also that Nielsen et al recommend that any header-prefix be at least three digits.
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