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

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Julian Reschke wrote:
> 
>>I'm not sure what your point is. Of course if a server mishaves that 
>>way, a client accessing it may cause problems. But that's the problem of 
>>the server, and I don't think there's anything we can do about that when 
>>discussing HTTP based protocols.
>>
>>What am I missing?
> 
> 
> 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?

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

Such as?

> So you don't need new methods just to express "intent".
> (Maybe for other reasons, but not this one).

Best regards, Julian

-- 
<green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:[phone]