Re: Summary of ETag related issues in RFC2518bis

Dan Brotsky wrote:
> As to your last question: Yes it's OK and no the server needs to break
> the lock if it does this (because it's indistinguishable from another
> client's edit).  Not all clients will work efficiently against servers
> that unexpectedly munge data after PUTs are complete but  that's life.

For the record: I think that linking the ETag behavior for PUT to the 
fact whether the resource was locked or not would be a really bad idea.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 21 December 2005 14:56:14 UTC