RE: Using If and not failing

> From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org
> [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Lisa Dusseault
> Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 2:05 AM
> To: 'Julian Reschke'; 'Clemm, Geoff'; 'Webdav WG'
> Subject: RE: Using If and not failing
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> > >  - Dan Brotsky saw these proposals and still felt strongly that a much
> > > more simple approach was necessary for long-term interoperability.
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> > I'd like to hear that directly from him, not as hear-say. In particular,
it
> > would be nice if the group of client programmers that thinks that there
*is*
> > an issue would actually sit down and try how the proposed usage of the
> > existing If header turns out to work.
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> Please see:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2002OctDec/0118.html
>
> ...

I'm aware of the original mail.

Fact is, there has been extensive dicussion about this mail (with Dan *not*
returning to the list). We have tried to analyze the problem, and we have
made proposals how to achieve the desired semantics. I even posted a test
suite.

We are now waiting for feedback, in particular a discussion whether our
proposal works for the clients or not (in which case they need to explain
*why*). It seems to be impossible to get this kind of feedback. Until we get
it, I'd propose to consider this particular issue (how to let a request
succeed when the lock token is known, but the lock has gone away) as closed.

Julian

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