- From: Lisa Dusseault <lisa@xythos.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 10:04:57 -0800
- To: "'Julian Reschke'" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: "'Webdav WG'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org>
> Note that the proposed "OPTIONS *" functionality will not > work anyway. > Is it worth keeping the remainder? OPTIONS * is an HTTP feature, not a WebDAV feature that we can keep or throw away. It's been there for years. I haven't seen much opposition to the feature, outside of a few people on the WebDAV mailing list. It's got useful semantics. It's too bad, as Julian has pointed out in the past, that the Java servlet design made it difficult to add stuff to OPTIONS *. (It's not impossible, just difficult. I can point to existence proofs that it's possible, it just requires taking over the root namespace with a servlet application, or doing something outside the servlet framework.) To me, that argues for fixes to the Java servlet functionality, not dropping an HTTP feature. If Microsoft "broke" OPTIONS * in its ISAPI design, the standards community would not be so likely to quietly drop support for it. Lisa
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