- From: Peter Raymond <Peter.Raymond@merant.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 12:06:56 -0000
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
- Message-ID: <20CF1CE11441D411919C0008C7C5A13B034B83A6@stalmail.eu.merant.com>
Hi, In my earlier e-mail I mentioned that I was unsure about the contents of the DAV:bindings property. Here is some more detail about why I think it is unclear, also find attached some PowerPoint slides which I used to try to understand the bindings property. I guess there are two things in the text that mislead me: 1) Section 13.1 says that the property "contains a complete list of all bindings to that resource", but also says it is necessary to select one URI mapping for a collection. It seems to contradict itself, it is not complete because it only contains one URI mapping for a collection. 2) It also says you should preferably use the mapping in the request-URI of the BIND request. But I am unclear as to which BIND request. It is a PROPFIND request which was issued to find the DAV:bindings property, not a BIND request. Perhaps it means the last BIND request for that collection or perhaps it means the first bind request for the resource in the collection? So using the example in Figure 1 of the bindings document you have the URI paths: /coll1/bar /coll2/bar /coll3/foo /coll1/ and /coll2/ are the same collection resource but all these URIs point to the same resource (R2). Imagine you make a PROPFIND request on /coll2/bar, asking for the DAV:bindings property...should you get: <bindings> <href>/coll1/</href> <segment>bar</segment> <href>/coll2/</href> <segment>bar</segment> <href>/coll3/</href> <segment>foo</segment> </bindings> That is a "complete" list of all bindings for resource R2...BUT section 13.1 says you should pick only one URI for a given collection, so perhaps it should return: <bindings> <href>/coll2/</href> <segment>bar</segment> <href>/coll3/</href> <segment>foo</segment> </bindings> Because /coll1/ and /coll2/ are the same collection I have picked just one URI mapping for that collection...in this case I used the URI mapping from the PROPFIND request. Is my understanding of this correct? <<BindingsProperty.ppt>> Regards, -- Peter Raymond - MERANT Principal Architect (PVCS) Tel: +44 (0)1727 813362 Fax: +44 (0)1727 869804 mailto:Peter.Raymond@merant.com WWW: http://www.merant.com
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