- From: Geoffrey M. Clemm <gclemm@tantalum.atria.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 22:22:35 -0400
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
From: John Stracke <francis@ecal.com> "Geoffrey M. Clemm" wrote: > Note: I happen to think "allprop" is an abomination that should be put > out of its misery. Why is that? Because the client gets properties it doesn't understand? That's true for most cases, but a client which is trying to do server-to-server copying needs to get all the properties, whether it understands them or not. Whenever a large or expensive "live" property is proposed, the main argument against it (that I've heard) is that "it will make an allprop request too expensive". Why do you need allprop for server-to-server copying when you have a COPY method? The allprop approach is virtually assured of getting an error, since there inevitably will be some live properties that cannot be PROPPATCH'ed. Cheers, Geoff
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