- From: Jason Crawford <ccjason@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 10:54:26 -0400
- To: Webdav WG <w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org>
Hey WebDAV'ers, A couple of the disagreeing parties (JimW, GeoffC, LisaD) put there heads together to come up with a compromise on the issue of allowing non-lock owners to UNLOCK a resouce. The compromise is that the following items should be said in the spec. - A server MAY allow principals other than a lock owner to unlock a resource - If a server supports the unlocking of a resource by someone other than the lock owner, this capability SHOULD be under access control. - There is a tradeoff in allowing non-owners of a lock to unlock a resource. It can be beneficial to allow non-lock owners to perform UNLOCK requests because it allows the adminstrator of the server to configure the server to grant longer lock timeouts because the administrator knows that there is a process in place to allow users to deal with forgotten locks left by other users. On the other hand, a disadvantage of unlocking someone else's lock is that can create a situation where two users are working on modifications to the same resource at the same time which can result in a client having to perform an merge that wasn't previously planned. If we have a consensus around this, the wording that we will use will be very close to this. If you have any comments on the position or wording, please speak up. J. ------------------------------------------ Phone: 914-784-7569, ccjason@us.ibm.com
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