- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:30:26 +0200
- To: Michael Wechner <michael.wechner@wyona.com>
- CC: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Michael Wechner schrieb: >> Why would the server care? > > because the server might be able to handle different versions of WebDAV. > I think this makes sense > for backward and forward compatibility reasons. Well, so far there are no different versions, so the server doesn't need to know. If a spec revision or an extension should introduce a change where the server does need to know, the client *then* can send the DAV request header, as defined in <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-webdav-rfc2518bis-15.html#dav-header>. > Also the server might want to deliver a different response, e.g. if the > GET request is being issued from a regular Web-Browser, > then the server might respond with a common (X)HTML, but if the GET > request is being issued from Cadaver or OpenOffice then > the server might respond with an ODT file. Well, that's what the HTTP "Accept" request header is for. > ... Best regards, Julian
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