Re: multiget reports Re: Thoughts on relation to WebDAV

On 28.05.2008, at 12:05, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Helge Hess wrote:
>> Could you elaborate? An MGET capable cache could still disassemble  
>> the MGET and serve the individual resources from its cache (which  
>> is in fact why I would prefer a real MGET instead of a REPORT). It  
>> would really just be a nested request.
> OK, that would work, but will be tricky to deploy. *Existing* caches  
> will not know how to do it.


Si. But they don't know how to deal with MKCOL or REPORT either, so I  
think thats not really relevant to my question :-)
Point is: MGET method would be cachable according to the rules which  
apply to the embedded requests.

So, does it make sense to do a 'mget-ext' proposal? What about caldav/ 
carddav vendors, would you implement it? Cyrus?


Maybe this should actually be a 'BATCH' method, not an 'MGET' (GET  
specific).

---snip:rq---
BATCH /calendar HTTP/1.1
content-type: x-http/batch-rq
content-len: xyz
accept-encoding: gzip

GET /calendar/123.ics
accept: text/calendar; charset-utf-8
if-none-match: "myetag"
content-length: 0

GET 345.ics # allow relative URLs? would be nice
accept: text/calendar; charset-utf-8
if-none-match: "myetag"
content-length: 0

POST /calendar HTTP/1.0
content-type: text/calendar; charset=utf-8
content-length: uujk

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
...
---snap---

---snip:res---
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
content-type: x-http/batch-res
content-len: xyz
content-encoding: gzip # the whole batch could be encoded, w/o TE

HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
content-length: 0
content-location: /calendar/123.ics

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
content-length: opq
content-type: text/calendar; charset=utf-8
content-location: /calendar/345.ics

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
...

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
content-length: 0
content-type: text/calendar; charset=utf-8
content-location: /calendar/999.ics
location: /calendar/999.ics

---snap---

Makes sense? I admit, its very similiar to pipelining, but much easier  
to implement using existing infrastructure.

Thanks,
   Helge
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Helge Hess
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