Re: WebDAV Bindings - Issue Yaron.MrIntegrity

>A binding is a relation between a segment S in a collection C and a resource
>R, represented C:(S->R).  We are saying that when a server agrees to create
>a binding, it MUST guarantee that the binding will continue to exist until
>one of the following happens:
> 
>DELETE with a Request-URI whose final segment is S and the rest of the URI
>identifies collection C
>MOVE with a Request-URI whose final segment is S and the rest of the URI
>identifies collection C
>BIND with a Destination whose final segment is S and the rest of the URI
>identifies collection C, and Overwrite is T
>DELETE the last binding to collection C
> 
>It is not acceptable for a binding to be destroyed as a side effect of any
>other operation.

I don't understand why this is a requirement of bindings.  It certainly
isn't a requirement of normal resources.  Why should the requirements on
bound names be stronger than the names they bind to?

....Roy

Received on Thursday, 20 January 2000 19:38:50 UTC