Re: multiget reports Re: Thoughts on relation to WebDAV

Stefan Eissing wrote:
> This BATCH/multi-GET topic comes up quite regularly every year or so. 
> It's a pony discussion.
> 
> For all use cases I have seen so far either
> 1. pipelining was adequate for it
> 2. or examples where as you described with optimizations for multiple 
> operations (security checks, dbms lookup, etc.)
> 
> Case 2 could be betterh andled (e.g. without changing the worldwide HTTP 
> implementation) by optimizing the URL namespace. What I mean is that one 
> adds URLs to the application which represent specific views on multiple 
> resources. Those you can then retrieve with a single GET.
> ...

Right.

Actually, my proposal allows a server to assign a GETtable URI to any 
REPORT response, so a client would have an extremely simply way to find 
out about the URI.

BR, Julian