Re: Thoughts on relation to WebDAV
Petr Tomasek <[email protected]>
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On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 06:13:54PM +0200, Werner Baumann wrote: > > > Petr Tomasek wrote: > >But every webdav client I've seen REQUIRES the DAV-header to operate on > >an URL as on a WebDAV collection. So it means You would practically disalow > >any partial (e.g. a read-only) WebDAV implementation, even if it works > >correctly and the full-fledged functionality is not needed at all! > > > > What the hell is a "read-only WebDAV implementation"? WebD*A*V is about > *Authoring*. Sorry, but this is silly! According to such an interpretation one couldn't use e.g. the HTTP protocol for anything else, than a hypertext! Rather, the WebDAV is most commonly used as a network filesystem implemented over HTTP and as such it makes much sense to have a read-only filesystem. -- Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek> Jabber: [email protected] SIP: [email protected]