- From: Daniel LaLiberte <liberte@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 11:52:05 -0400 (EDT)
- To: John Stracke <francis@ecal.com>
- Cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
John Stracke writes: > Disturbing thought from the peanut gallery: cross-host MOVE (i.e., > between two URLs with different hostnames) is not necessarily > cross-server, because they could be hosted on the same machine. So, > sometimes, something that looks like a cross-server MOVE may work. > But usually it won't. And, in some cases, a user may find it works > for a while and then stops, when his admin splits the server up. Or > vice versa. Fun, no? :-) Conversely, something that looks like a same-server MOVE may work (if it works at all) in a way that is functionally indistinguishable from a cross-server MOVE. This can happen if the move is across internal boundaries that require a copy, such as across file system boundaries, or from a database to a file system. No public protocol is needed to support this internal move, however. -- Daniel LaLiberte liberte@w3.org
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