[Ietf-caldav] Re: draft-reschke-http-addmember-00

[Jamie Lokier <[e-mail]>]

Julian Reschke wrote:
> >You're missing that when you are doing CalDAV* requests, you _know_ the
> >URL you are accessing is CalDAV compliant already.  (* - example).
> 
> How does a client do *any* kind of server feature discovery if *any* 
> method (including things like OPTIONS) may cause harm because of broken 
> server implementations?

Even when you can trust OPTIONS, that's not going to tell you if it's
a CalDAV resource - only what methods are accepted.

You do feature discovery - in other words, which URL points to a
calendar - in other ways.

> >If you don't know that you have big problems.
> 
> Such as?

Such as trying to treat a non-calendar resource as a calender! :)

-- Jamie