- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 21:41:20 +0200
- To: "Jim Whitehead" <ejw@cse.ucsc.edu>, <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
> From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org > [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Jim Whitehead > Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 9:24 PM > To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org > Subject: RE: Proposal: WebDAV and transactions > > > > One common example is to be able to write a resource and its > properties in a > single operation. You want this to be a transaction, so that the resource > doesn't get updates before the properties are written, and so that if the > properties cannot be written, the resource is reverted back to it's > pre-write state. That's an excellent example for a case where a LOCK (or a delta-V working resource) is all you need, right? It get's more interesting once you want to manipulate *several* related resources. Julian -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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