- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 19:18:52 +0100
- To: "John DeSoi" <desoi@icx.net>, <w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org>
> From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org > [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of John DeSoi > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 2:25 PM > To: w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org > Subject: RE: Issues PUT_AND_INTERMEDIATE_COLLECTIONS and > INTEROP_DELETE_AND_MULTISTATUS > > > > > At 4:49 PM +0100 1/22/03, Julian Reschke wrote: > > > Lisa Dusseault: > >> > few HTTP clients do authoring, and those that do are at > least aware that > >> > 207 is a multistatus response > >> > >> Netscape/Mozilla Composer is an HTTP authoring tool that is not > >> aware of 207. > > > >Yes. But as far as I understand it's abandoned as well. The > solution here is > >to make sure that when/if Mozilla 1.x starts supporting > authoring again, it > >will pay attention to RFC2518 semantics. > > Netscape/Mozilla still supports editing with Composer and works fine > with my WebDAV server (using HTTP PUT). I don't believe it supports a You are right. For some reason I thought that this was supposed to work using "save", which was greyed out when a web resource was opened. In fact, it's "Publish". You learn something new every day. > DELETE method; but since HTTP does define a DELETE method, I don't > see how WebDAV can justify redefining the meaning of 2xx status codes. Well. The main justification is that it has been doing this for almost 4 years now, and - there wasn't a big outcry, and - it doesn't seem to negatively affect anybody. That being said, from a consistency p.o.v. I agree. I'll assume for a moment that few WebDAV clients indeed *do* evaluate a 207 on DELETE (and other candidates such as LOCK/COPY...), and those probably would be easy to upgrade. If this is true, all we'd need to do is - deprecate status of 207 for failures - introduce a new 4xx code such as INCOMPLETE OPERATION which would carry the same multistatus body Feedback appreciated. Julian -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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