RE: Scope - only collections?

> From: www-webdav-dasl-request@w3.org
> [mailto:www-webdav-dasl-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Jim Davis
> Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 10:01 PM
> To: www-webdav-dasl@w3.org
> Subject: RE: Scope - only collections?
>
> ...
>
> >I personally can't see why a collection would be required, and our
> >implementation doesn't require that. So I agree with Jim and
> yourself that
> >this restriction should be lifted (I'll add that to the issues list for
> >now).
> >
> >Jim originally proposed to allow any URI as scope. I think that could be
> >done, although it would probably require some more work to get "depth"
> >properly defined. Jim, do you think that would be worth the effort?
>
> Seems to me that depth makes sense only if the URI is a WebDAV collection
> resource.  If the URI is not a collection, the meaning is just undefined.

Question: should we say what the depth means if the URI scheme is a
hierarchical one?

Received on Friday, 5 July 2002 02:11:54 UTC