- From: Joe Orton <joe@manyfish.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 08:32:19 +0000
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:42:13PM -0800, Chris Knight wrote: > > Julian Reschke wrote: > >>behaviors for properties. Say, for example, you requested <foo:author> > >>and the resource had <foo:author>, <foo:author_name>, and <foo:authors> > >>the server's response would contain all of these properties. > > > > > >If you do this upon PROPFIND/prop, that's illegal. > > I thought this too but I didn't find anything in the RFC that would make > such behavior illegal. I don't think it's worthy of inclusion in the RFC > but a clarification of this would be worthwhile. (Clarification being > must the server only respond with the values requested?) I asked this very same question a few years ago - Yaron said it's perfectly legal for the server to return extra properties since the client must ignore unknown/unexpected elements. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2000JanMar/0196.html Regards, joe
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