Re: Seiwald Q & A -- "GET for EDIT" cookies
Daniel W. Connolly (connolly@w3.org)
Sun, 01 Sep 1996 00:51:31 -0400
In message <c=US%a=_%p=msft%l=RED-44-MSG-960901001030Z-22529@mail.microsoft.com
>, Yaron Goland writes:
>The Derived and Version headers would not be able to handle a situation
>where you check out the same document from several different locations.
Interesting claim. Would you please elaborate, giving the argument
behind it? What about that scenario could Derived-From and
Content-Versio not handle/express?
Dan
> One
>could, of course, munge on information to the fields but that is the same
>concept as cookies or URL appending.
> Yaron
>
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>From: Daniel W. Connolly[SMTP:connolly@w3.org]
>Sent: Friday, August 30, 1996 6:39 PM
>To: Christopher Seiwald
>Cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org; www-vers-wg@ics.uci.edu
>Subject: Re: Seiwald Q & A -- "GET for EDIT" cookies
>
>In message <199608310041.RAA23761@spice.perforce.com>, Christopher Seiwald
>writ
>es:
>>
>>Clearly the URL is not sufficient: multiple users can be working on the
>>same document.
>>
>>URL+username might be better, but I can easily imagine a case where the
>>same named user (or the same user) is working on a single document from
>>two different places.
>>
>>URL+username+hostname? Maybe.
>
>This is what Derived-From: and Version: are all about: in
>response to a GET (for edit), the server emits Version: ... .
>
>In the corresponding PUT, the client includes Derived-From: ... .
>
>See Dave Long's draft for details.
>
>Dan
>