- From: John Stracke <francis@netscape.com>
- Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 09:55:47 -0700
- To: "'WebDAV'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Marcus Jager wrote: > Type A references cannot be "dangling" since they reference a specific > location irrespective of the existence of a resource there. I don't think this is a useful viewpoint. They are dangling in a very real sense: if you do a GET on them, you get an error. That error is going to have to be 404 (unless we define a new one and confuse all the existing clients), which means that, as far as a client is concerned, the reference doesn't exist--the client doesn't know that the 404 applies to the target. If the client then comes along and does a PUT on this location that it believes to be empty, the server will perform the PUT at the target location. I believe that this kind of confusion is going to be a very bad thing. -- /====================================================================\ |John (Francis) Stracke |My opinions are my own.|S/MIME supported | |Software Retrophrenologist|=========================================| |Netscape Comm. Corp. | I will not buy this .signature, it is | |francis@netscape.com | scratched. | \====================================================================/
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