- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 22:42:24 PDT
- To: "Yaron Goland" <yarong@microsoft.com>, "Jim Davis" <jdavis@parc.xerox.com>, "Falkenhainer, Brian C" <BFalkenhainer@crt.xerox.com>
- Cc: "WebDAV working group" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
|I have a resource called http://a/b/c. I delete http://a/b. Is http://a/b/c |deleted? Is this a trick question? DELETE instructs that the collection specified in the request-URI and all its internal member resources are to be deleted. So whether deleting http://a/b deletes http://a/b/c by dint of this rule depends on whether http://a/b/c is or isn't an internal member resource of http://a/b. For the most part, WebDAV works fine without the assumption that resource membership hierarchy is mapped onto URL syntax. Of course, if we allow a resource to be an 'internal member' of multiple collections, why, we might have to resort to reference counting! Or even garbage collection! Larry -- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter (resource contained in http://www.parc.xerox.com/istl/members/)
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