Re: atompub vs. webdav

[Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@xxxxxx>]

* Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@xxxxxx> [2008-11-21 10:05]:
> On the other hand, I'm totally concerned with people who are
> trying to re-invent WebDAV in terms of AtomPub. For instance,
> using POST to implement namespace operations (operations, that
> after all give the client control over the URLs...) instead of
> just reusing COPY/MOVE.

I’m not surprised: for one thing, most people don’t know anything
about WebDAV past the name; and for another, COPY/MOVE are better
than POST, but the problem space is messy and COPY/MOVE always
felt like suboptimal and limited solutions to me, outside the
very simplest cases. Too many app-level semantic implications are
possible, which I am not sure can reasonably be expressed as part
of a uniform interface. In such cases you need some other way of
communicating the semantics even though it appears to be a COPY
or MOVE operation.

Difficult.

You can rightfully argue that most people are only trying to
solve the simplest case for which COPY/MOVE would work just fine,
though.

Regards,
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