- From: Judith Slein <slein@wrc.xerox.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 10:32:18 PDT
- To: Arthur van Hoff <avh@marimba.com>
- Cc: Judith Slein <slein@wrc.xerox.com>, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org, Push Workshop <www-push@w3.org>
Thanks for your background on the DRP index. The current version of the WebDAV protocol specification, which includes collections, can be found at: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ejw/authoring/protocol/draft-ietf-webdav-protocol-02.txt >> I think what is really desirable for (2) is for the client to be able to >> specify in an INDEX request what information it wants about the members of >> the collection. Collections are used for lots of different purposes, and >> different properties of the members will be useful in different contexts. > >Right. That would be ideal. > >> However, this flexibility would make it impossible for the index to be >> stored as a file, as DRP suggests -- it would have to be generated in >> response to the client's request. > >I'm not sure why that is so. Couldn't you generate a file containing >a DRP flavored collection? I would really like to stay away from >defining >new HTTP methods if at all possible. > Yes. I was just looking for a single approach that would let you get the DRP information about each member of the collection, or any other set of properties for each member of a collection. If you want it to be really open-ended, letting the user-agent specify any set of properties it likes, then you can't have a URL for each possible set of properties, so some extension to HTTP will be needed. --Judy Name: Judith A. Slein E-Mail: slein@wrc.xerox.com Internal Phone: 8*222-5169 External Phone: (716) 422-5169 Fax: (716) 265-7133 MailStop: 105-50C
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