- From: Lisa Dusseault <ldusseault@xythos.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 13:00:29 -0800
- To: "'Julian Reschke'" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, <www-webdav-dasl@w3.org>
>>If in all current > implementations, every WebDAV > > collection (resource?) can act as an arbiter, why not > require that for > > basicsearch support? Is there some prospective SEARCH > implementation that > > couldn't handle that? > > There could be some. Basically, you could have a search > arbiter on server a > which allows generic DAV.basicsearch queries on remote WebDAV > servers (which > only support standard PROPFIND). > > What would be the benefit of requiring this? > The benefit would be that if the client sees "basicsearch" in the OPTIONS request for the server, then they know exactly how to find a search arbiter. Choose any collection. Easy. It seems to be a tradeoff between easier implementation for the client, and possibly easier implementation for servers. We tend to see first the server's point of view in these mailing lists (including me!) Lisa
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