- From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 14:04:07 +0100 (CET)
- To: Brett McCormick <brett@mail.flyingcroc.net>
- cc: WebDAV WG <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Brett McCormick wrote: .... > > 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. > This situation has already been considered. Section 5.4 of RFC 2518 > (the webdav spec) is titled "Source Resources and Output Resources." But still, beside this as soon as you hit dynamic content you have two problem's hitting you; you cannot 'PUT' to the target URI so easily anymore as it has different semantics; which is more than just the content and something as simple as, say, renaming a top level directory reliably can in fact trigger locking on a virtually infinitive space of URI's deeper down. Dw
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