WebDAV properties vs. variants

• From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
• Date: 2002年3月22日 18:15:24 +0100
• To: <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <JIEGINCHMLABHJBIGKBCIEDPEEAA.julian.reschke@gmx.de>

Hi,
I think we need to clarify how HTTP variants relate to WebDAV properties.
1) The headers returned upon HTTP's GET reflect meta-information about the
entity which was returned. This in turn depends on the variant that was
selected (based on context and request headers).
2) WebDAV's "get*" properties are defined to reflect whatever the entity
headers for this resource would have been.
I'd say this means that:
3) PROPFIND should use the same algorithm to internally select a version as
GET.
4) Does this also mean that properties other than the "get*" properties
reflect information about a specific variant and not the resource itself?
Julian

Received on Friday, 22 March 2002 12:40:05 UTC