- From: Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org>
- Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 21:40:17 -0800 (PST)
- To: Serge Knystautas <sergek@lokitech.com>
- cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Serge Knystautas wrote: > "Roy T. Fielding" wrote: > > That is already present in the protocol, as the source property. > > The reason that the source isn't advertized as a external link on every > > GET response is because some people don't like to publish how their > > resources are generated, and it doesn't make an efficient tradeoff given > > that a typical resource is going to be GET'd millions of more times > > than it will be PUT. > > Thanks for the tip (and for your patience). I will look into the source > property. Do most client/servers implement this, or is this relatively > unsupported right now (is this class 1 or class 2 feature, if that > question makes sense)? mod_dav supports it as a "dead" property and depends on the server admin to set up the appropriate structures on the server. Some future version of mod_dav (sooner or later... I dunno) will support a directive to automatically set up DAV:source properites, aliases, and content-type settings. I posted a note a couple days ago about how mod_dav might handle the property. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
Received on Monday, 22 November 1999 00:40:33 UTC