Re: Simplifying RFC-2518 Locking: A proposal

The lock can expire for the principle owning the lock, not the lock token. This
implies a principle can't own multiple locks on the same resource which is
already the case.





John Stracke <francis@ecal.com> on 10/18/99 11:26:39 AM

To:   w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
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Subject:  Re: Simplifying RFC-2518 Locking: A proposal



jamsden@us.ibm.com wrote:

> I suspect most clients would work just fine if the server returned a
> constant for the lock token for compatibility purposes. What do others think?

Constant lock tokens have the problem that they can't expire.

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Received on Monday, 18 October 1999 11:59:52 UTC