- From: Clemm, Geoff <gclemm@rational.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 08:22:16 -0500
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
If you have a URL for the source (i.e. the one that PUT can be applied to), what benefit would EDIT (previously called GETSRC in the recent thread on this subject) have, other than saving you one roundtrip, i.e. instead of a "PROPFIND, GET" you would do an EDIT? In particular, if you are going to use locking for your authoring (which you should :-), you don't want to issue the GET until you have successfully LOCKed the URL (i.e. your sequence will be PROPFIND(source)/LOCK(source-URL)/GET(source-URL). So unless you also want to bundle an implict "LOCK" into the EDIT, you need to do the PROPFIND first anyway. Cheers, Geoff -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Eissing [mailto:stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de] I'm not really a fan of new HTTP methods, but just for interest: Wouldn't a new method like "EDIT" which retrieves the editable content of a resource make our life easier? It could respond with a Content-Location where a PUT can be applied...
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