- From: <jamsden@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 12:30:42 -0500
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
- Message-ID: <8525687A.0060BD3F.00@d54mta03.raleigh.ibm.com>
Geoff, I'm trying to solve a different problem than the one you reference below. I'm not worried about hijacking someone else's lock, what I want is just some way to get the lock tokens for the resources *I* have locked so I don't have to hang on to them in my client application. "Geoffrey M. Clemm" <geoffrey.clemm@rational.com> on 02/03/2000 11:03:26 AM To: Jim Amsden/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org Subject: Re: 423 Locked What Jim is asking for is a way for a client to find out "is my current principal the same as the principal that took out the lock" *without* asking its user. I do not believe that is what Richard was asking for, but rather wanted information to give to the user about who currently has that resource locked (i.e. the information in the DAV:owner field). Richard: Is this interpretation correct? Since a client should *always* ask its user before doing anything with a lock token from some other client, I maintain that the currently defined DAV:owner field is adequate for correct usage of lock tokens, and no DAV:principal field should be defined. Cheers, Geoff From: jamsden@us.ibm.com There is a DAV property called DAV:lockdiscovery which contains a DAV:activelock element which contains, among other things, a DAV:owner field describing the owner of the lock. The WebDAV spec does not define the content of the DAV:owner element, it only suggests that it should describe the owner of the lock in some way that another user could contact the owner. Unfortunately, there is no element in DAV:activelock that specifies the actual princapal that took out the lock. I believe this is a bug that requires all clients to maintain their lock tokens in some other redundant repository. This issue has been open for over a year. I hope it gets addressed and resolved as part of the ongoing effort to clarify WebDAV locking semantics and protocol. "Rickard Falk" <rickard.falk@excosoft.se>@w3.org on 02/03/2000 03:46:52 AM If a resource is locked with a exclusive lock, and another user tries to lock if. The response then is 423 Locked. But, is there any way for the client to know who owns the lock? I would like the response to look something like this : 421 Locked Date: ... Server: ... Connection: ... LockOwner : user LockDate : date LockType : exclusive LockedUntil : date // if specified when locked Comments? /Rickard
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