RE: Ideas: GETSRC & MULTIPUT from Jim Whitehead on 2001-10-30 (w3c-dist-auth@w3.org from October to December 2001)

From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@cse.ucsc.edu>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 14:02:21 -0800
To: "Lisa Dusseault" <lisa@xythos.com>, "WebDAV" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Message-ID: <AMEPKEBLDJJCCDEJHAMICEFCDKAA.ejw@cse.ucsc.edu>

Lisa Dusseault writes:
> This is the way a lot of dynamic content actually seem to work:  e.g. the
> file is the .jsp file, the "real" content of the file is pretty much the
> source code.  Permissions on the .jsp file determine who can read or write
> it.  With this view of things, PROPPATCH, PROPFIND, PUT all
> affect the .jsp file.  The only thing that differs between a .jsp file
> and a .txt file in the same directory is that an innocent GET request
> returns dynamic content in the .jsp case.

Yes, this is what I had in mind for GETSRC.

- Jim

Received on Tuesday, 30 October 2001 17:06:26 UTC