- From: Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 09:24:37 -0700
- To: WebDAV WG <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:19:54AM -0700, Jim Whitehead wrote: >... > My understanding of the rough sentiment of the working group is: > > 1) PROPFIND allprop requests with Depth infinity should be deprecated. That > is, PROPFIND allprop with Depth infinity will remain in the WebDAV > Distributed Authoring Protocol, but there will be a requirements added that > new clients MUST NOT use this capability. When existing clients are > revised, they SHOULD be rewritten to avoid using PROPFIND allprop Depth > infinity requests. This will only apply to PROPFIND allprop with Depth > infinity -- PROPFIND allprop for Depth 0 and 1 will still be OK. Toss the timing stuff. The revised text should simply state that clients MUST NOT use the capability. Some existing clients will "not conform" for a bit, but that is not our problem, and it probably won't be an issue anyways. > 2) The default behavior of PROPFIND will be changed so it is Depth 0, not > Depth infinity. I agree with this one, but it could be a troublesome change. mod_dav normally disallows Depth:infinity PROPFINDs (unless the server is confiured to allow them), so maybe clients are used to sending a Depth:0 or 1. Hard to say. The point is that a client that doesn't send a depth header, and expects a depth of infinity is going to be very surprised by a Depth:0 response. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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