- From: Geoffrey M Clemm <geoffrey.clemm@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 11:55:35 -0500
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
I agree with Julian. Implementing locking properly is not a trivial task, and there will always be fine-grained resources for which locking is not appropriate on a server that supports locking. Interoperable clients need to understand that locking may not be provided on all servers, or on all resources on a server. Cheers, Geoff Julian wrote on 02/07/2004 03:31:56 AM: > Lisa Dusseault wrote: > > Here's another idea. What if we made locking required in the next > > version of WebDAV? Servers that support RFC2518 can always claim > > support for RFC2518 without changes but most servers support locking > > anyway and wouldn't find this difficult. For clients of course it's > > no change at all. Then WebDAV core would have almost no options. > > I think *that's' a bad idea. There are lots of servers that do not allow > locking, or that do allow locking, but not on all resources. Let's make > things simpler, not more complicated.
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