- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 14:57:55 +0100
- To: ejw@cs.ucsc.edu
- CC: 'webdav' <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Jim Whitehead wrote: > Seems to me we already have an example of a live property that varies > depending on the binding used to access it -- DAV:displayname. On servers > where this just reflects the binding name of the resource, it seems like it > would vary depending on the binding used to access it. This is a known issue with servers that indeed implement DAV:displayname that way; for instance discussed in <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-webdav-bind-issues.html#bind_properties>. My position is, that a server that implements DAV:displayname as computed property based on the binding name is simply poorly implemented; DAV:displayname is defined to be "...a description of the resource that is suitable for presentation to a user" (<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2518.html#PROPERTY_displayname>), not a repetition of the last path segment. Apache/moddav and many other serves get this right; and I expect the same will apply to any server that actually supports multiple bindings. Best regards, Julian -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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