Re: Recognizing a WebDAV enabled client from Manfred Baedke on 2006-06-30 (w3c-dist-auth@w3.org from April to June 2006)

From: Manfred Baedke <manfred.baedke@greenbytes.de>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:32:57 +0200
To: Michael Wechner <michael.wechner@wyona.com>
CC: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Message-ID: <44A4EFC9.9060304@greenbytes.de>

Hi Michael,

> 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.

What about the Accept header?

> because the server might be able to handle different versions of 
> WebDAV. I think this makes sense
> for backward and forward compatibility reasons.

Are there any specific incompatibility issues you are aware of ?


Regards,
Manfred

Received on Friday, 30 June 2006 09:33:16 UTC