Re: Locking non-existent paths. Time to discuss.

C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:
>
>
>> * still interoperating with MS Office
>
>
> ... with the unfortunately side effect of having every new file
> creation look like *two* 0-byte PUTs (read, two commits of the same
> empty file) -- one for the LOCK, and one for already-existing 0-byte
> PUT that Office does. At least we can detect this fact, though, and
> make the commit message read differently:
>
> "WebDAV Autoversioning: Path '%s' reserved for locking with an empty file."
> "WebDAV Autoversioning: Modified '%s'.

a) Does Office indeed to the 0-byte PUT (I'm not sure)?

b) Even if it does, shouldn't the LOCK braces cause it to be a single
checkin? (see
<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc3253.html#PROPERTY_auto-version>,
DAV:checkout-unlocked-checkin).

Best regards, Julian

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Received on Mon Mar 21 16:25:15 2005