- From: John Stracke <francis@netscape.com>
- Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 17:08:53 -0700
- To: "'WebDAV'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
"Roy T. Fielding" wrote: > The only type of client that needs to know the difference > between a nonexistent target of a direct reference and a nonexistent > resource is a WebDAV authoring client. For the rest, 404 is sufficient. I'm not sure that's the case. If a client PUTs to a direct reference that it thinks is a nonexistent resource, the results can be surprising. Consider this scenario: I have a dangling direct reference into another user's directory tree; I don't have write permission on the target. I come along and find that my direct reference is reporting 404; I forget that it was a reference, so I think I must have deleted that page. So I find/create a replacement for that page and try to PUT it, only to be told I don't have write permission. -- /====================================================================\ |John (Francis) Stracke |My opinions are my own.|S/MIME supported | |Software Retrophrenologist|=========================================| |Netscape Comm. Corp. |If God had not given us duct tape, it | |francis@netscape.com | would have been necessary to invent it. | \====================================================================/
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