- From: Lisa Dusseault <lisa@xythos.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 19:04:22 -0700
- To: "Webdav WG" <w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org>
Jim's argument that DASL could be implemented on top of an existing Web Server, without any DAV features, I find compelling. In addition, I thought of a few other reasons: - DASL is rather big, and rather 'primary'. It's not just a part of another feature, like the reports are part of ACL and part of DeltaV. As such, I believe servers will want to advertise support for search directly in the OPTIONS response. If Search is just another report, it would seem wierd to treat it differently. - REPORT could become too much of a catch-all. It shouldn't be. We need to resist making REPORT the POST of DAV. - It's already implemented as SEARCH in a couple places (including, I admit, Xythos' implementation). While I don't consider that argument to trump the issue, it's certainly a consideration. If there were real problems with a separate method with SEARCH I'd agree and push to change existing implementations -- but there aren't any problems. Overall, since the arguments for replacing SEARCH with REPORT aren't very strong arguments, I'd say keep it the way it is. Lisa
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