- From: Geoffrey M. Clemm <gclemm@tantalum.atria.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 16:40:15 -0400
- To: JSlein@crt.xerox.com
- Cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
From: ccjason@us.ibm.com [mailto:ccjason@us.ibm.com] ... this also reminds me that with AdvColl, it is possible that a portion of the source tree and the destination might be common. And that initial deletion phase of the COPY might actually essentially delete a portion of the source tree. It's probably a red herring, but it's probably also something we should mention in the spec. I agree that it is something that should be explicitly mentioned (and disagree that it is a red herring :-). In particular, I'd suggest some words to the effect that a COPY should be semantically equivalent to a COPY to a temporary URL (that identifies a null resource) followed by a MOVE from the temporary URL to the destination URL. Since this situation can arise even in the base WebDAV spec, it probably would be worth adding this wording there as well, but minimally it should appear in the Adv. Col. specification. Cheers, Geoff
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