- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 18:16:54 +0100
- To: ejw@cs.ucsc.edu
- CC: "'WebDAV (WebDAV WG)'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Jim Whitehead wrote: > I think there should be examples of If header use in the BIND specification, > and also in RFC 2518bis. Though quite related, this repetition is > worthwhile. It is worthwhile in 2518bis because of the observed problems > with client implementations of the If header. Interoperability errors are > expensive to identify and fix, and tend to have negative impacts on users > before they are fixed. Examples often help reduce interoperability errors, > and are less costly to produce than it is to identify and fix an > interoperability problem. > > The bind specification introduces some new wrinkles for If header passing > and processing, especially the existence of loopback bindings. Additionally, > a diligent, careful specification reader could still find it useful to have > an example that confirms their understanding of how to apply the If header > processing described in RFC 2518 to collections using bindings. For these > two reasons it also makes sense to have an example of If header passing in > the bind specification. As I said before, I'm not completely opposed to add examples; it's just that we should make sure we don't get carried away (because it's RFC2518bis, or, may I say, a separate locking spec's ([1]) role to add these). So, could you please specify exactly which situation you'd like the example to be for? My understanding was: - Method: REBIND - Locks on: source and target collection Correct? Julian [1] <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-reschke-webdav-locking-latest.html> -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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