RE: [hwarncke@Adobe.COM: Re: [dav-dev] Depth Infinity Requests]

Hi,

Note that for realistic sized repositories, say 50K to 100K files, any
depth=infinity request near the repository root is going to be too
expensive. For instance, an allprop request in such a case will be several
to tens of megabytes, and may take minutes to produce.

While it may be convenient for clients going against small repositories, I'd
expect that most servers will fail most infinity requests most of the time.

I think a lot of the uses that people envision for depth=infinity are more
likely served by intelligent tree-walking, or by DASL. The possiblility of
failure forces you to code a tree-walk into your client anyways.

- jim
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Jim Doubek
Macromedia, Inc.
jdoubek@macromedia.com
http://www.macromedia.com/

    -----Original Message-----
    From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org
    [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Jim Davis
    Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 1:09 PM
    To: Greg Stein; w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
    Subject: Re: [hwarncke@Adobe.COM: Re: [dav-dev] Depth Infinity Requests]


    At 07:15 AM 7/6/00 -0700, Greg Stein wrote:
    >What is the general consensus on PROPFIND with Depth:
    infinity? I quoted a
    >couple messages below that tend to favor disallowing them. I got that
    >impression from some other comments on this list, but couldn't
    find specific
    >references.
    >
    >For clarity: can prople give opinions on simply disabling
    PROPFIND infinity?

    I oppose disabling infinity.  it is useful (as other emails have shown).

    I agree to adding a principled way to refuse a request that's
    too expensive.

Received on Thursday, 6 July 2000 16:29:16 UTC