- From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 16:25:22 -0800
- To: Brian Lloyd <Brian@digicool.com>
- Cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Brian Llyod writes: > This is especially true regarding "templatish" objects that may > or may not be thought of as "content" depending on what you are > doing with them. I suspect that this is also an issue with ASP, PHP, > et. al. too - it would be great to be able to manage these things > in a standards-based way, but currently DAV is very static-file > centric in its approach. I'm not knocking that - but it makes > the practical use of DAV pretty limited on sites that can't get > by on just static files. I've been hoping that we can wrangle > the time to make some contributions in this area. Well, I would certainly welcome work in this area. So far, people have not been taking to the "source link" approach, where to find the unprocessed source of an object, you look up a URL in the source link on the original resource (by performing a PROPFIND), then perform a GET on the destination URL of the source link. - Jim
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