Re: Do server store arbitrary content

I think any future RFC could define something that was an restricted version
of DAV. 

On 12/14/05 1:34 PM, "Lisa Dusseault" <lisa@osafoundation.org> wrote:

> Perhaps we should set a precedent for content-limited servers not to
> advertise themselves as being fully functional WebDAV servers.   That
> would go for those CalDAV servers that can't handle non-event data in
> calendars too, at least that restriction could be advertised on those
> types of collections.  There are probably a couple other restrictions I
> would consider major hurdles for clients expecting to "do their WebDAV
> thing" -- possibly some of the weak or no ETag cases or wierd
> creationdate cases we've discussed before.
> 
> Lisa
> 
> On Dec 13, 2005, at 6:38 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Cullen Jennings wrote:
>>> On 12/13/05 2:33 PM, "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
>>>> Cullen Jennings wrote:
>>>>> I have a questions for the WG. Can servers, within policy
>>>>> constraints, be
>>>>> expected to store arbitrary data. What I mean be the policy
>>>>> constraints is
>>>>> clearly a server might reject a request because it was too large,
>>>>> or it
>>>>> decided the file had a virus and it would not store it. But in
>>>>> general, can
>>>>> a client expect a WebDAV serve to be able to store say a HTML file?
>>>> In general, no it can't. There are servers that accept only
>>>> particular
>>>> types of content (such as something running on top of an XML
>>>> database).
>>>> 
>>>> Would it be useful to allow clients to discover support for these
>>>> kinds
>>>> of things upfront? Sure, that's exactly I'd be happy to define a
>>>> profile
>>>> and give it a compliance class name for use in the DAV header (for
>>>> example).
>>>> 
>>>> Best regards, Julian
>>> You keep mentioning the XML database but I would have expected them
>>> to save
>>> non XML data as more or less a BLOB. Am I missing something key here?
>> 
>> You may or you may not. I can only provide hear-say here (I was
>> referring to Slide running on top of certain Tamino instances; that's
>> Software AG's XML database).
>> 
>> Another example (as discussed before) would be a Calendar (CalDAV) or
>> a Newsfeed (Atompub) server. Both may restrict the type of content you
>> can put in specific places.
>> 
>> Best regards, Julian
>>

Received on Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:23:03 UTC