- From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 13:37:07 -0700
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Well, I actually tried to move the parent collection of a locked resource using some existing DAV tools, and here's what happened: User A: Opens document "/ejw/fun/survey.doc" with Word 2000. This locks the document. User A then goes and opens up Web folder on the desktop, displaying "/ejw/". User A then asks to rename folder "fun" to "notfun". An error message comes back, stating that the folder couldn't be renamed, but after manually refreshing the Web folder, it appears that a new folder "notfun" and the old folder "fun" are both still present. When the "fun" folder only contains "survey.doc", after the rename both folders contain distinct copies of "survey.doc". When "fun" contains more resources than just "survey.doc" before the move, the destination folder only contains these other resources, and does not contain "survey.doc" (Xythos), or contains all resources, including "survey.doc" (IIS 5 Beta 3). After the move, folder "fun" only contains "survey.doc". As I recall from RFC 2518, this is actually compliant behavior -- the move was performed best-effort. This suggests that part of the problem is the interplay between the new binding semantics of move, and the desire to preclude best-effort moves. - Jim
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