- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 00:43:30 +0100
- To: Geoffrey M Clemm <geoffrey.clemm@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: webdav <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Geoffrey M Clemm wrote: > I don't see why we couldn't require this (redirects created by some other > mechanism don't have to act the same way as redirects created by > MKREDIRECTREF. > > So we could/should say that the value of a redirectref changes only when > it is explicitly updated by a PROPPATCH of the DAV:reftarget property, > and not as a side-effect of some other operation such as MOVE. That's exactly what I *don't* want to say, because in reality there are servers that have a concept of redirect reference resources, *although* they auto-update their target. This is completely consistent with RFC2616, and I don't see why the redirect spec can or should *forbid* that. I do agree that this behaviour may be confusing, and that it makes sense to discourage it, but we can't change what's already there... Julian -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
Received on Wednesday, 7 January 2004 18:47:00 UTC