- From: Alan Kent <ajk@mds.rmit.edu.au>
- Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 15:43:57 +1000
- To: WebDAV <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 10:13:27AM +0530, Medha Atré wrote: > Hello, > I read RFC 2518, but I am not very clear about how to actually create a > Null-Resource using available client APIs like HTTP::WebDAV (Perl) or Neon > (C) ? > Can anybody explain that to me ? > > Thanks and Regards. > > Medha A few people actually dislike the term 'null resource'. There is no resource of type 'null' that is ever created. Basically a 'null resource' means there is no resource. So you cannot create them. Any URI not currently bound to a resource is said to refer to a 'null resource'. A better way of describing it is that the URI is unmapped or unbound. I could imaging the terminology came about from the concept of having a variable in a programming language of type 'resource' that is null rather than pointing to a resource object. Bottom line: there is no API to create null resources because null resources are not resources. The phase "null resource" really means "there is no resource". Alan ps: I guess you could then argue that DELETE can create null resources! :-) :-) :-)
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