Re: An idea for PUT where the server picks the name

[Lisa Dusseault <[e-mail]>]

I like this

Lisa

On Jul 30, 2008, at 10:22 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I proposed an ADDMEMBER method some time ago (<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-reschke-http-addmember-00.html 
> >), and one feedback I got was that it's not needed because it  
> duplicates POST.
>
> In fact, Atompub (RFC 5023) uses POST exactly this way.
>
> My main concern with this approach is that clients in general do not  
> know what the semantics of a POST will be, so the servers needs to  
> tell them in some way. In HTML forms are used, in Atompub it's part  
> of the contract for collections.
>
> So how about something like this:
>
> - define a new live property on collections, "post-location",  
> containing an DAV:href element identifying a resource that the  
> client can POST to
>
> - servers that already use POST on collections would just assign a  
> different URI for that service, others could just use the  
> collection's URI
>
> - POST would work as in AtomPub: post any type of content, server  
> stores it, and returns new URI in Location header.
>
> - we probably would also want to include the Slug header, as defined  
> in <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc5023.html#rfc.section.9.7>.
>
> (I recall people were unhappy with CalDAV requiring support for PUT,  
> could this be useful over there as well?)
>
> BR, Julian
>