Re: Newbee: Understanding question WebDAV-Protocoll

Miguel Figueiredo wrote:
> Hello mate,
> 
>  If you need to do change the lastModified time of a resource, I would
> consider that an hacker wish ;)
>  No way you're going to be able to that, especially if you are using the
> client API. You would need to change server behavior, and in a way that the
> server would not follow webdav specification directives. The reason is
> pretty straightforward: webdav specification states that resources have
> "live" and "dead" properties, being the dead properties the ones we can
> PROPPATCH, that is, we can create, update and remove them from the resource.
> The live properties values, like lastModified, creationDate, contentLength,
> contentType, are calculated in real time (maybe stored afterwards) with
> server information. For that reason, they are protected, and can't be
> changed by the user (I'll just copy paste and excerpt from rfc4918):
> "
>    Live Property - A property whose semantics and syntax are enforced by
>    the server.  For example, the live property DAV:getcontentlength has
>    its value, the length of the entity returned by a GET request,
>    automatically calculated by the server.
> "
> ...

Well.

This means that a server is *allowed* to reject a request setting 
DAV:getlastmodified. But it doesn't have to.

Best regards, Julian