- From: Joe Hildebrand <joe@cursive.net>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:59:25 -0600
- To: WebDav <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Agree. Plus, there does exist a way, that, while being a hack, does work, and is interoperable: <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0;URL=http://www.example.com/"> On 6/13/05 8:07 PM, "Lisa Dusseault" <lisa@osafoundation.org> wrote: > > > The main flaw in the REDIRECT proposal is that there is not enough in > the way of plans to implement it. Without a set of independent > implementors around to review it, I fear it's too complex or has missed > key interoperability issues. > > To be clear, I do understand that the Web needs and uses redirects, and > I see that administrators do create them and that browsers follow > redirect status codes. I'm arguing that there isn't a clear need for > interoperable authoring of redirect resources, or if there is, it's not > met by this specification. Implementors might tell us, for example, > that they don't need the ability to modify a redirect (why not just > recreate) or that they'd prefer something which could handle redirecting > URLs via pattern matching to another set of calculated URLs. > > There seems to be one organization that implements REDIRECT authoring in > a potentially-interoperable way -- I believe that's Julian's > organization. I think that's great, and even better that they're > interested in publishing the way they do it so that others can do the > same. I just don't believe that meets the bar for a standards-track > RFC, because we've learned in the IETF that actual implementor review is > very important to writing good, clear, simple standards that people need. > > OSAF-specific stuff: We do not have plans to implement redirect in Cosmo > or Chandler (server or client), neither to create redirects, allow them > to be created, or add logic to allow for redirects existing on other > WebDAV servers. We're more interested, potentially, in using bindings. > > Lisa > > > Cullen Jennings wrote: > >> I would like to start working group last call >> >> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-webdav-redirectref-protocol-1 >> 2.txt >> >> This WGCL will end on July 4th so please have your comments emailed to this >> list before then. >> >> Thank you, Cullen >> >> >> >> > > -- Joe Hildebrand
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