Subject: Re: I-D Action:draft-reschke-webdav-post-04.txt

From: Julian Reschke <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:47:51 +0100

Hi,

draft 04 contains the changes I proposed last week 
(<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2009JanMar/0000.html>).

Best regards, Julian

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> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
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> 	Title           : Using POST to add Members to Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) Collections
> 	Author(s)       : J. Reschke
> 	Filename        : draft-reschke-webdav-post-04.txt
> 	Pages           : 14
> 	Date            : 2009-01-13
> 
> The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Extensions for the Web
> Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) do not define the
> behavior for the "POST" method when applied to collections, as the
> base specification (HTTP) leaves implementers lots of freedom for the
> semantics of "POST".
> 
> This has led to a situation where many WebDAV servers do not
> implement POST for collections at all, although it is well suited to
> be used for the purpose of adding new members to a collection, where
> the server remains in control of the newly assigned URL.  As a matter
> of fact, the Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) uses POST exactly for
> that purpose.  On the other hand, WebDAV-based protocols such as the
> Calendar Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV) frequently require clients to
> pick a unique URL, although the server could easily perform that
> task.
> 
> This specification defines a discovery mechanism through which
> servers can advertise support for POST requests with the
> aforementioned "add collection member" semantics.
> 
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