

redirect references protocol: automatic update

From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 13:29:23 +0100
Message-ID: <3FF958A3.3040900@gmx.de>

Regarding issue the last call (year 2000) issue:


"Add language to forbid servers from automatically updating redirect 
resources when their targets move."

I don't think we can forbid that. This spec consists of (a) 
clarifications of how a server that supports redirects should behave for 
specific WebDAV methods, and (b) extensions to explicitly create them 
(or to apply a method to the redirect itself). As such, we shouldn't add 
any requirements that HTTP doesn't add. What we could do is (1) note why 
auto-update may be a bad idea, and possibly (2) define that redirects 
created by MKREDIRECTREF should not behave that way (or alternatively 
define more specific resource types).

Regards, Julian
Received on Monday, 5 January 2004 07:29:25 UTC
