On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 10:09, Kendall Clark wrote: > >>>>> "terrel" == Terrel Shumway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I think, provisionally, that some parts of DAV infrastructure do > generalize: request parsing, response construction, (maybe) property > and lock management (or perhaps just parts of lock and property > management, like universally unique lock token creation, say). I'm >...
OK, My ignorance is showing. I have not actually read any WebDAV specs. I just assumed that it was a network VFS with version control semantics. I guess the "collection management" abstraction is the first thing I think of when I see the word "filesystem". Too much reiserfs on the brain. <shrug> > I agree. Unsafe GETs are unsound. > > That kind of knowledge > terrel> need not be available outside of the servlet. It is also why > terrel> /delete is better spelled as /?action=delete: > > No, it's why GET should be safe! :> > > Spiders, conservative or not, do not issue DELETE methods to origin > servers, after all. You are suggesting HTTP DELETE? I hadn't thought of that. Does that mean I can say <form method="DELETE" action="..."> and the browser will send the appropriate request when I submit the form? If this usage is not widely supported, I suppose POST will do with slightly mangled semantics. (spiders don't do POSTS either, I suppose.) > Now, eventually, I think this *kind* of issue gets swallowed up by > content negotiation and media feature tags (RFC 2295). Until then, > however, the distinction between view and variant is wholly > context-specific and interest-relative. OT: I was using IE to print a wiki page (moinmoin). When I pulled up the print preview, it added ?action=print to the URL. I wondered if this was just an IE hack. I didn't think there might be some standard behind it. Is this the "media feature tag" you are talking about? Yes! There it is! <link rel="alternate" media="print" href="%s?action=print"> I like it! > Plus, there is a human factors angle: URLs with ? and & are ugly and > hard for most people to remember. Ordinary, non-hacker types can > remember /foo/bar/print far easier than they can /foo/bar?action=print I think that the "Print" button that uses media="print" is even easier to remember. 8-) I love it! (not very useful though if you just want to download a pdf.) > I agree completely that the way an app server like Webware manages URI > space should make no assumptions about filesystems. That's, in my > view, the major Webware wart. I hadn't thought of it that way. But yes, that is exactly right. _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
