- From: Babich, Alan <ABabich@filenet.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 12:25:28 -0800
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org
"Would it be permissible to assume that properties in the DAV: namespace *never* are dead properties, allowing to skip this step?" I don't think so. Alan Babich -----Original Message----- From: Julian Reschke [mailto:julian.reschke@gmx.de] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 6:29 AM To: w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org Subject: Using DAV namespace for proprietary properties Hi, currently RFC2518 is silent on this issue. However, deltaV says 1.5 [1]: "Although WebDAV request and response bodies can be extended by arbitrary XML elements, which can be ignored by the message recipient, an XML element in the DAV namespace MUST NOT be used in the request or response body of a versioning method unless that XML element is explicitly defined in an IETF RFC." I think something similar needs to be added to the revision to RFC2518. Looking at current implementations I notice that the Microsoft Webfolder client (sigh!) does a PROPFIND on no less than then 10 proprietary properties placed into the DAV: namespace ([2]), of which it only seems to *use* one (DAV:ishidden). Without wiring special knowledge about these attributes into a server, it will usually have to consult the resource's dead properties (just to find out that these don't exist). Would it be permissible to assume that properties in the DAV: namespace *never* are dead properties, allowing to skip this step? Julian [1] <http://www.webdav.org/deltav/protocol/draft-ietf-deltav-versioning-20.1.htm #_Toc524830510> [2] <http://www.greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/webdavfaq.html#ANSWER-mswebfolder-prop rietary-properties>
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