- From: John Stracke <francis@ecal.com>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 23:08:46 +0000
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
ccjason@us.ibm.com wrote: > What is peoples' thinking on how a client will define what is returned by a GET > request for a URI like... > > http://www.myhost.com/ Generally speaking, GET on a DAV collection Ought To work just like it would if that resource weren't DAV--it should treat it as a GET on index.html, or whatever. We don't want to break existing browsers, after all. That being said, it might be nice if a DAV client could customize, or at least query, which resource(s) a collection uses (plural because it can be handy to specify a search list: index.cgi, index.html, index.txt, DirectoryList). Maybe a DAV:defaultresource property, which contains a list of resource elements; each element contains (or is) either an href or a <DAV:directorylist/>. Some servers might not support setting it, but querying it should be fairly easy. -- /=============================================================\ |John Stracke | My opinions are my own | S/MIME & HTML OK | |francis@ecal.com|============================================| |Chief Scientist | NT's lack of reliability is only surpassed | |eCal Corp. | by its lack of scalability. -- John Kirch | \=============================================================/
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