  Re: Summary of ETag related issues in RFC2518bis  From: Julian
Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:03:39
+0100 Message-ID: <43A73C4B.3010603@gmx.de> To: Cullen Jennings
<fluffy@cisco.com>  Cullen Jennings wrote: > Let's say Alice has
a compliant webdav client that stores gif files, and Bob > has a
compliant dav server? Will these things work together? > I can
imagine a couple answers: > 1) we don't know, it might work, it
might not - there is really no way to > know  As of now (RFC2616
+ RFC2518), we don't know. A server is free to reject  whatever
it feels to. If anybody thinks this is not the case, please
back that up with references to normative specification text.
But is it good that a client won't know until it tries,
potentially  getting a 415 status code? No, thus the proposal to
make that feature   > 2) no Alice's client is not compliant
because the only thing a webdav server > has to store is HTML
Nobody is saying that, as far I can tell.  > 3) yes, given it
passes policy c