Re: Limiting the scope of an untagged If Header production (was: RE: If Header: evaluation of all assertions)

Another possible "breakage" is use of the untagged if header for
PUT on unmapped resources. At least our server uses then the
untagged production to check the parent resource.

//Stefan

Am Sonntag, 13.10.02, um 19:36 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb Clemm, Geoff:

> I am somewhat concerned about the effect of this change on
> the semantics of existing clients.
>
> For example, do any clients today submit the etag of both the source
> and the destination resource of a MOVE in an untagged If production?
> If so, this change would remove the etag check on the Destination,
> and thereby break the overwrite protection for that request.
>
> But if we won't be breaking existing clients, I fully support this
> change, since it simplifies and clarifies the semantics of the
> If header.
>
> Cheers,
> Geoff 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lisa Dusseault [mailto:lisa@xythos.com]
>
> Also, I would clarify what the untagged if production refers to, and it
> should probably refer only to the resource named in the Request-URI.
>

Received on Monday, 14 October 2002 04:43:58 UTC