- From: Michael Wechner <michael.wechner@wyona.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:20:37 +0200
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- CC: Jan Algermissen <jalgermissen@topicmapping.com>, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Julian Reschke wrote: > Jan Algermissen schrieb: >> Hi, >> >> On Jun 30, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: >> >>> Michael Wechner schrieb: >>>> Hi >>>> It's not clear to me how a server can recognize a WebDAV enabled >>>> client from a GET request and >>> >>> It can't. >> >> I will run into the same question in the near future, so let me get >> this right: >> >> I have implemented an HTTP resource for something collection-like and >> like to serve that up as HTML lists or WebDAV collections depending >> on the client capabilities. Are you saying I cannot detect if I am >> talking to a client that can handles WebDAV collections or not? >> That's seems silly. > > If a client does a GET on that URL, return HTML. If a client does a > PROPFIND on that URL, return a XML multistatus response body. this might working for collections, because PROPFIND exists ;-) and hence allows differentiation > > What am I missing? as I described I think there are good reaons that also a GET request needs differentiation, but also more generally being able to recognize the version. Thanks Michi > > Best regards, Julian > -- Michael Wechner Wyona - Open Source Content Management - Apache Lenya http://www.wyona.com http://lenya.apache.org michael.wechner@wyona.com michi@apache.org +41 44 272 91 61
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