RE: Issues PUT_AND_INTERMEDIATE_COLLECTIONS and INTEROP_DELETE_A ND_MULTISTATUS

I've never seen the MS webfolder client actually parsing a 207 response --
all it does is display the fact that something whent wrong.

I guess we'll just experimentally implement that and see how clients
behave...

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org
> [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Clemm, Geoff
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 7:51 PM
> To: w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org
> Subject: RE: Issues PUT_AND_INTERMEDIATE_COLLECTIONS and
> INTEROP_DELETE_A ND_MULTISTATUS
>
>
>
> If widely deployed clients (e.g. MS office) would not choke on
> this change,
> I would support doing as Julian suggests.
>
> Cheers,
> Geoff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Reschke [mailto:julian.reschke@gmx.de]
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 1:19 PM
> To: John DeSoi; w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org
> Subject: RE: Issues PUT_AND_INTERMEDIATE_COLLECTIONS and
> INTEROP_DELETE_AND_MULTISTATUS
>
>
>
> > 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
>
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