- From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 17:02:26 -0700
- To: "'DASL'" <www-webdav-dasl@w3.org>
> What is the mechanism used to discover collections? Typically, you'll receive this information from the administrator of the DAV server. > Why wouldn't that mechanism work for discovering search arbiters > other than "/"? It could work, but in my view, it's really undesirable. Having to receive the name of the top-level DAV collection from a server administrator is unavoidable, or, perhaps more precisely, it would have been expensive to develop a discovery protocol for this information. However, it would be very inexpensive to allow the search arbiter to be discovered, either by querying a property, or by receiving a 302 redirect when trying to perform SEARCH on a non-search arbiter resource. This, in my view, is much less expensive than having the search arbiter be a manually entered configuration item. Creating another manually entered configuration item would seriously hamper the usability of the DASL protocol. - Jim
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