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RE: Some comments on the 1.1 draft

• To: "Gavin Thomas Nicol" <gtn@r...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Some comments on the 1.1 draft
• From: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@g...>
• Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 20:36:05 +0100
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> From: Gavin Thomas Nicol [mailto:gtn@r...]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 5:52 PM
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  Some comments on the 1.1 draft
>
>
> On Wednesday 19 December 2001 05:06 am, Julian Reschke wrote:
> > > that want to display anyway--or are the control character performing
> > > some kind of formatting?
> >
> > How could I know? A property in WebDAV can be *anything*.
>
> This is a problem with the WebDAV spec, not XML.
>
> I have never seen a reasonable way in WebDAV to even specify the
> legal values
> for properties (schemas) so extended properties are suspect at best.

Well, that's missing. Correct. Has it stopped WebDAV's acceptance as an
authoring protocol? No.

> A lot of the issues here are abuse of the existing infrastructure. A good
> analogy is in the good old days of "finger". A lot of people,
> self included,
> abused finger so that we could transfer data through firewalls
> (and create
> awesome animated ASCII movies). We had to work within the bound of the
> system, and yes, it was inefficient, and kludgy.
>
> Don't blame the system for your abuses is my recommendation....
> and if you
> really can't stomach it, *do something else*.

I don't agree that WebDAV is abusing port 80 -- it's the IETF approved way
to extend HTTP 1.1 with authoring/locking/discovery.

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