RE: Interoperability for DAV:ishidden?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org
> [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Eric Sedlar
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 8:12 PM
> To: Julian Reschke; w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Interoperability for DAV:ishidden?
>
> ..
>
> What is needed is an interoperable way, given a resource ID, to
> operate on a
> resource with that ID on the server.  If the mapping between
> resource-ID and
> implementation is server-defined, we can't do that.  Requiring the DAV:
> namespace to respond to these requests is probably the easiest
> thing to do,
> since this will work with other methods, like LOCK and so forth.  REPORT
> doesn't handle that case.

Eric,

WebDAV is an HTTP extension. There's simply no way to directly manipulate a
resource identified by a DAV: URI using HTTP/WebDAV. Is this *really* what
you're proposing, or am I missing something?

Julian

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Received on Thursday, 5 September 2002 14:32:57 UTC