- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 16:19:08 +0100
- To: Lisa Dusseault <lisa@xythos.com>
- Cc: 'Webdav WG' <w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org>
Lisa Dusseault wrote: > The OPTIONS changes are as much to find out if the server supports PATCH, as to That doesn't require additional functionality, there's already the "Allow" header. > indicate which patch formats are supported. It's nice for clients to be able > to discover all major optional features supported by the server in one > OPTIONS request, rather than trying features which might not work. Is this doesn't seem to be time-critical, I'm not sure that I see the benefit. Not changing OPTIONS will create less dependencies and will possibly make it easier to add the feature to existing servers. Note that the proposed "OPTIONS *" functionality will not work anyway. Is it worth keeping the remainder? Julian -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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