- From: Jason Crawford <ccjason@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 12:01:50 -0500
- To: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Hey everyone...
The following posting about four months ago was not answered. Do we have
an answer? Is this a general problem for properties? Let's hear what you
think...
BTW... I'd like to mention, but not necessarily recommend an option. See
(d) below.
>
> Hi,
>
> if for some reason a server doesn't have one of these timestamps for a
> resource, what should it report on PROPFIND for these properties?
>
> a) Property not found (HTTP 404),
>
> b) Empty property (this seem to be backed by the wording in section 7.4
> [1],
> but is reported as error by Adobe GoLive,
>
> c) Property silently suppressed (not reported at all) -- this
> seems to work
> with GoLive.
d) Return a fixed but not correctly supported value. For example, always
respond with 1/1/1990.
>
> In addition, how should the server behaviour upon a PROPFIND/propname on
> this resource?
>
> Julian
>
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