- From: Dan Brotsky <dbrotsky@adobe.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:08:34 -0800
- To: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: "Geoffrey M Clemm" <geoffrey.clemm@us.ibm.com>, <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
We're getting closer... :)
> So let's look at what clients are interested in again:
>
> - they want to avoid fetching an ETag after PUT,
Yes.
>
> - in some cases, they want to be able to find out whether the
> server stored exactly what they sent,
No. I claim no client wants to know this. Ever. If they really want
to know that the content matches what they have, then they use a server
that supports MD5 hashes and they rely on those.
If they are worried about network corruption then TCP/IP has things for
that.
> - if they interleave PUT and PROPPATCH, they want their ETags
> to continue to work.
Yes.
>
> I believe all of these things can be accomplish by protocol
> extensions, and I'll be happy to spec them out. On the other
> hand, I don't think it would be a good idea to rush them into
> RFC2518bis, which was supposed to be finished around this
> time of year (if I may remember).
I believe all of these things that clients want are accomplished with
what we have, as long as we have servers hand back strong etags on PUT.
dan
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