Re: Possible problem in collection definition

On Feb 21, 2006, at 12:07 PM, Lisa Dusseault wrote:

> On Feb 21, 2006, at 6:46 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
>
>> Wilfredo Sánchez Vega wrote:
>>>   Should we recommend that a PROPFIND always return the same  
>>> (canonical) segment from a given list of equivalent segments?
>>
>> If a server doesn't do that, UIs will behave in a *very*  
>> surprising when a collection view is refreshed.
>>
>> Thus, I'd say, yes they SHOULD.
>
> MUST, even.
>
> Are such segment mappings considered harmful enough to recommend  
> that servers SHOULD NOT have equivalence sets of segments?  (But  
> that if they do, here's how they MUST do it, of course)

   These are fairly common today, and people seem to be getting by  
just fine, so I'd say no, they aren't sufficiently harmful.

	-wsv

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