Re: AW: DAV:principal-URL

Wilfredo Sánchez Vega <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.webdav
Message-ID <[email protected]>
   OK, this sounds right, though it's not the answer I was hoping  
for.  :-)

	Thanks,
	-wsv


On May 10, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Geoffrey M Clemm wrote:

> So here's the problem:  The primary purpose of the DAV:principal-URL  
> is to specify the "identity" of a principal (so you can use it to  
> check for equality).  But you might not have an HTTP URI that can be  
> used as the "identity" (you might need to use some URN URI, for  
> example).  So you might be forced to use a non-HTTP URL in the  
> DAV:principal-URL property.
>
> So the spec says that there must be an HTTP URL for a principal, but  
> it does not require that the HTTP URL be the one that appears in the  
> DAV:principal-URL property.
>
> At least that's how I remember it ... I could of course be wrong  
> (it's been a while :-).
>
> Cheers,
> Geoff
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