- From: John Stracke <francis@netscape.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 10:55:56 -0700
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
dlaliberte@gte.com wrote: > John Turner writes: > > First off, I don't beleve that WebDAV can't have anything to say about the > > choice of the namespace shape. It can (and does) require that URL's ending > > in "/" act like collections > > I didnt think that was true, because it imposes on existing web servers > that mere directories would suddenly become collections. However, I > think that should be OK, if being a collection doesn't mean servers are > required to do any more than they already do to support the collection. If they want to call themselves DAV servers, then, yeah, they have to support things like PROPFIND. > Hierarchial URLs do provide a convenient, more direct access to > components of collections, but that is by no means the only way to > access components of collections. But we have to be able to go both ways: given a URL, you have to be able to find out what collection it belongs to. -- /======================================================================\ |John (Francis) Stracke |My opinions are my own.|"The Elliot 903 was| |Software Retrophrenologist|=======================/the first portable | |Netscape Comm. Corp. |I ever used, though it needed a furniture | |francis@netscape.com | van to *make* it portable." -- Will Rose | \======================================================================/ New area code for work number: 650
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