Network Working Group C. Daboo
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Intended status: Standards Track A. Quillaud
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CalDAV Managed Attachments
draft-daboo-caldav-attachments-01
Abstract
This document defines how CalDAV servers can provide server managed
collections to allow attachments associated with iCalendar data, to
be stored and managed on the server.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Conventions Used in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Open Issues (to be removed prior to publication as a RFC) . . 4
4. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4.1. Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4.2. Discovering Support for Managed Attachments . . . . . . . 5
4.3. POST Request for Managing Attachments . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.4. Adding attachments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.5. Updating Attachments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.6. Removing Attachments via POST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.7. Adding Existing Managed Attachments via PUT . . . . . . . 13
4.8. Updating Attachments via PUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.9. Removing Attachments via PUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.10. Retrieving Attachments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.11. Additional Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5. Modifications to iCalendar Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5.1. SIZE Property Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5.2. FILENAME Property Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5.3. MANAGED-ID Property Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5.4. MTAG Property Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6. Additional Message Header Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.1. Cal-Managed-ID Response Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
7. Additional WebDAV properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
7.1. CALDAV:managed-attachments-server-URL property . . . . . . 18
8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
9. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
9.1. Parameter Registrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
9.2. Message Header Field Registrations . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
10. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
11. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
11.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
11.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Appendix A. Change History (To be removed by RFC Editor
before publication) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Appendix B. Example Involving Recurring Events . . . . . . . . . 21
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
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1. Introduction
The iCalendar [RFC5545] data format is used to represent calendar
data and is used with iTIP [RFC5546] to handle scheduling operations
between calendar users.
[RFC4791] defines the CalDAV Calendar Access protocol, based on HTTP
[RFC2616], for accessing calendar data stored on a server.
Calendar users often want to include attachments with their calendar
data events or tasks (for example a copy of a presentation, or the
meeting agenda). iCalendar provides an "ATTACH" property whose value
is either the inline Base64 encoded attachment data, or a URL
specifying the location of the attachment data.
Use of inline attachment data is not ideal with CalDAV because the
data would need to be uploaded to the server each time a change to
the calendar data is done - even minor changes such as a change to
the summary. Whilst a client could choose to use a URL value
instead, the problem then becomes where and how the client discovers
an appropriate URL to use and how it ensures that only those
attendees listed in the event or task are able to access it.
This specification provides a solution to this problem whereby the
client sends the attachment to the server separately from the
iCalendar data and the server takes care of adding appropriate
"ATTACH" properties in the iCalendar data as well as managing
privileges . The server can also provide additional information to
the client about each attachment, such as the size and an identifier,
so clients can manage their list of attachments directly from the
calendar data.
2. Conventions Used in This Document
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
"OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in
[RFC2119].
The notation used in this memo is the ABNF notation of [RFC5234] as
used by iCalendar [RFC5545]. Any syntax elements shown below that
are not explicitly defined in this specification come from iCalendar
[RFC5545].
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3. Open Issues (to be removed prior to publication as a RFC)
1. Do we need a way to allow for multiple attachments to be added,
updated or removed in a single POST (batching)?
2. Do we need a way for the server to indicate limits for managed
attachments (individual size, total size, total number etc).
Also a way for a server to indicate it does not allow inline
attachments?
3. Should we say anything about servers automatically stripping
inline attachments and making them managed?
4. Do we want to allow reusing of an existing ATTACH (with MTAG/
MANAGED-ID) in multiple calendar object resources (4.6)?
4. Overview
There are four main operations a client needs to do with attachments
for calendar data: add, update, remove, and retrieve. The first
three operations are carried out by the client issuing an HTTP POST
request on the calendar object resource to which the attachment is
associated and specifying the appropriate action query parameter. In
the case of the remove operation, the client can alternatively
directly update the calendar object resource and remove the relevant
"ATTACH" properties. The retrieve operation is accomplished by
simply issuing an HTTP GET request targeting the attachment URI
specified by the calendar resource's ATTACH property.
iCalendar data stored in a CalDAV calendar object resource can
contain multiple components when recurrences are involved. In such a
situation, the client needs to be able to target a specific
recurrence instance or multiple instances when adding or deleting
attachments. As a result, the POST request needs to provide a way
for the client to specify which recurrence instances should be
targeted for the attachment operation. This is accomplished through
use of additional query parameters on the POST request-URI.
4.1. Requirements
A server that supports the features described in this document is
REQUIRED to support the CalDAV "calendar-access" [RFC4791] features.
In addition, such server MUST honor the "return-representation"
Prefer header value [I-D.snell-http-prefer] on both HTTP PUT and POST
successful requests targeting existing calendar object resources, by
returning the new representation of that calendar resource (including
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its new Etag header value) in the response. The same behavior is
expected in the case of a successful HTTP PUT request to create a new
calendar object resource.
4.2. Discovering Support for Managed Attachments
A server supporting the features described in this document MUST
include "calendar-managed-attachments" as a field in the DAV response
header from an OPTIONS request on a calendar home collection.
4.3. POST Request for Managing Attachments
An HTTP POST request is used to add, update, or remove attachments.
The request-URI will contain various query parameters to specify the
behavior.
4.3.1. action= Query Parameter
The "action" query parameter is used to identify which attachment
operation the client is requesting. This parameter MUST be present
once on each POST request used to manage attachments. One of these
three values MUST be used:
attachment-add Indicates an operation that is adding an attachment
to a calendar object resource. See Section 4.4 for more details.
attachment-update Indicates an operation that is updating an
existing attachment on a calendar object resource. See
Section 4.5 for more details.
attachment-remove Indicates an operation that is removing an
attachment on a calendar object resource. See Section 4.6 for
more details.
Example:
http://calendar.example.com/events/1.ics?action=attachment-add
4.3.2. rid= Query Parameter
The "rid" query parameter is used to identify which recurrence
instances are being targeted by the client for the attachment
operation. This query parameter MUST contain one or more items,
separated by commas (0x2C). The item values can be in one of two
forms:
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Master instance The value "M" (case-insensitive) refers to the
"master" recurrence instance, i.e., the component that does not
include a "RECURRENCE-ID" property. This item MUST be present
only once.
Specific instance A specific iCalendar instance is targeted by using
its "RECURRENCE-ID" value as the item value. That value MUST
correspond to the RECURRENCE-ID value as stored in the calendar
object resource (i.e. without any conversion to UTC). If multiple
items of this form are used, they MUST be unique values.
If the "rid" query parameter is not present, all recurrence instances
in the calendar object resource are targeted.
The "rid" query parameter MUST NOT be present in the case of an
update operation.
Example:
http://calendar.example.com/events/1.ics?
action=attachment-add&rid=M,20111022T160000
4.3.3. managed-id= Query Parameter
The "managed-id" query parameter is used to identify which "ATTACH"
property is being updated or removed. The value of this query
parameter MUST match the "MANAGED-ID" property parameter value on the
"ATTACH" property in the calendar object resource instance(s)
targeted by the request.
The "managed-id" query parameter MUST NOT be present in the case of
an add operation.
Example:
http://calendar.example.com/events/1.ics?
action=attachment-update&managed-id=aUNhbGVuZGFy
4.4. Adding attachments
To add an attachment to an existing calendar object resource, the
following occurs:
1. The client issues a POST request targeted at the calendar object
resource.
A. The request-URI will include an "action" query parameter with
the value "attachment-add" (see Section 4.3.1).
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B. If all recurrence instances are having an attachment added,
the "rid" query parameter is not present in the request-URI.
If one or more specific recurrence instances are targeted,
then the request-URI will include a "rid" query parameter
containing the list of instances (see Section 4.3.2).
C. The body of the request contains the data for the attachment.
D. The client MUST include a valid Content-Type HTTP header
describing the media type of the attachment (as required by
HTTP).
E. The client SHOULD include a Content-Disposition HTTP header
[RFC6266] with a "type" parameter set to "attachment", and a
"filename" parameter that indicates the name of the
attachment.
2. When the server receives the POST request it does the following:
A. Validates that any recurrence instances referred to via the
"rid" query parameter are valid for the calendar object
resource being targeted.
B. Stores the supplied attachment data into a resource and
generates an appropriate URI for clients to access the
resource.
C. For each affected recurrence instance in the calendar object
resource targeted by the request, the server adds an "ATTACH"
property, whose value is the URI of the stored attachment.
The "ATTACH" property MUST contain a "MANAGED-ID" parameter
whose value is a unique identifier (within the context of the
server as a whole). The "ATTACH" property MUST contain an
"MTAG" parameter whose value represents the initial state of
the attachment. The "ATTACH" property SHOULD contain an
"FMTTYPE" parameter whose value matches the Content-Type
header value from the request. The "ATTACH" property SHOULD
contain an "FILENAME" parameter whose value matches the
Content-Disposition header "Filename" parameter value from
the request, taking into account the restrictions expressed
in Section 5.2. The "ATTACH" property SHOULD include a
"SIZE" parameter whose value represents the size in octets of
the attachment. Note that if a specified recurrence instance
does not have a matching component in the calendar object
resource, then the server MUST modify the calendar object
resource to include the overridden component with the
appropriate "RECURRENCE-ID" property included.
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D. Upon successful creation of the attachment resource and
modification of the targeted calendar object resource, the
server MUST return a 201 HTTP status response and include a
"Cal-Managed-ID" HTTP header containing the MANAGED-ID
parameter value of the newly created "ATTACH" property. The
client can use the "Cal-Managed-ID" header value to correlate
the attachment with "ATTACH" properties added to the calendar
object resource. It is expected that the client will
immediately reload the calendar object resource to refresh
any local cache.
In the following example, the client adds a new attachment to a non
recurring event and asks the server (via the Prefer
[I-D.snell-http-prefer] HTTP header) to return the updated version of
that event in the response.
>> Request <<
POST /events/64.ics?action=attachment-add HTTP/1.1
Host: cal.example.com
Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"
Content-Disposition:attachment;filename=agenda.html
Content-Length: xxxx
Prefer: return-representation
<html>
<body>
<h1>Agenda</h1>
</body>
</html
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>> Response <<
HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Type: text/calendar charset="utf-8"
Content-Length: yyyy
Content-Location: http://cal.example.com/events/64.ics
ETag: "123456789-000-111"
Cal-Managed-ID: 97S
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Example Corp.//CalDAV Server//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20010712T182145Z-123401@example.com
DTSTAMP:20120201T203412Z
DTSTART:20120714T170000Z
DTEND:20120715T040000Z
SUMMARY:One-off meeting
ATTACH;MANAGED-ID=97S;MTAG=987654321-555-441;FMT-TYPE=text/html;
SIZE=xxxx;
FILENAME=agenda.html:https://cal.example.com/attach/64/34X22R
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
4.5. Updating Attachments
To change the data of an existing managed attachment in a calendar
object resource, the following occurs:
1. The client issues a POST request targeted at the calendar object
resource.
A. The request-URI will include an "action" query parameter with
the value "attachment-update" (see Section 4.3.1).
B. The request-URI will include an "managed-id" query parameter
with the value matching that of the "MANAGED-ID" property
parameter for the "ATTACH" property being updated (see
Section 4.3.3).
C. The body of the request contains the updated data for the
attachment.
D. The client MUST include a valid Content-Type header
describing the media type of the attachment (as required by
HTTP).
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E. The client SHOULD include a Content-Disposition header
[RFC6266] with a "type" parameter set to "attachment", and a
"filename" parameter that indicates the name of the
attachment.
2. When the server receives the POST request it does the following:
A. Validates that the "managed-id" query parameter is valid for
the calendar object resource.
B. Updates the content of the attachment resource corresponding
to that managed-id with the supplied attachment data.
C. For each affected recurrence instance in the calendar object
resource targeted by the request, the server updates the
"ATTACH" property whose "MANAGED-ID" property parameter value
matches the "managed-id" query parameter. The "ATTACH"
property value (attachment URI) MUST remain the same. The
"ATTACH" property MUST contain an "MTAG" parameter whose
value represents the new state of the attachment. The
"ATTACH" property SHOULD contain an "FMTTYPE" parameter whose
value matches the Content-Type header value from the request
- this could differ from the original value if the media type
of the updated attachment is different. The "ATTACH"
property SHOULD contain an "FILENAME" parameter whose value
matches the Content-Disposition header "Filename" parameter
value from the request, taking into account the restrictions
expressed in Section 5.2. The "ATTACH" property SHOULD
include a "SIZE" parameter whose value represents the size in
octets of the updated attachment.
D. Upon successful update of the attachment resource and
modification of the targeted calendar object resource, the
server MUST return a 200 HTTP status response. It is
expected that the client will immediately reload the calendar
object resource to refresh any local cache.
The update operation does not take an "rid" parameter and does not
add, nor remove, any "ATTACH" property in the targetted calendar
object resource. To link an existing attachment to a new instance,
the client simply does a PUT on the calendar object resource, adding
an "ATTACH" property with the correct "MANAGED-ID" and URI value to
that instance (see Section 4.7).
In the following example, the client updates an existing attachment
and asks the server (via the Prefer [I-D.snell-http-prefer] HTTP
header) to return the updated version of that event in the response.
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>> Request <<
POST /events/64.ics?action=attachment-update&managed-id=97S HTTP/1.1
Host: cal.example.com
Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"
Content-Disposition:attachment;filename=agenda.html
Content-Length: xxxx
Prefer: return-representation
<html>
<body>
<h1>Agenda</h1>
<p>Discuss attachment draft</p>
</body>
</html
>> Response <<
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/calendar charset="utf-8"
Content-Length: yyyz
Content-Location: http://cal.example.com/events/64.ics
ETag: "123456789-000-222"
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Example Corp.//CalDAV Server//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20010712T182145Z-123401@example.com
DTSTAMP:20120201T203412Z
DTSTART:20120714T170000Z
DTEND:20120715T040000Z
SUMMARY:One-off meeting
ATTACH;MANAGED-ID=97S;MTAG=987654321-555-666;FMT-TYPE=text/html;
SIZE=xxxy;
FILENAME=agenda.html:https://cal.example.com/attach/64/34X22R
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
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4.6. Removing Attachments via POST
To remove an existing attachment from a calendar object, the
following occurs:
1. The client issues a POST request targeted at the calendar object
resource.
A. The request-URI will include an "action" query parameter with
the value "attachment-remove" (see Section 4.3.1).
B. If all recurrence instances are having an attachment removed,
the "rid" query parameter is not present in the request-URI.
If one or more specific recurrence instances are targeted,
then the request-URI will include a "rid" query parameter
containing the list of instances (see Section 4.3.2).
C. The request-URI will include a "managed-id" query parameter
with the value matching that of the "MANAGED-ID" property
parameter for the "ATTACH" property being removed (see
Section 4.3.3).
D. The body of the request will be empty.
2. When the server receives the POST request it does the following:
A. Validates that any recurrence instances referred to via the
"rid" query parameter are valid for the calendar object
resource being targeted.
B. Validates that the "managed-id" query parameter is valid for
the calendar object resource and specific instances being
targeted.
C. For each affected recurrence instance in the calendar object
resource targeted by the request, the server removes the
matching "ATTACH" property. Note that if a specified
recurrence instance does not have a matching component in the
calendar object resource, then the server MUST modify the
calendar object resource to include the overridden component
with the appropriate "RECURRENCE-ID" property included, and
the matching "ATTACH" property removed. This later case is
actually valid only if the master component does include the
referenced "ATTACH" property.
D. If the attachment resource is no longer referenced by any
instance of the calendar object resource, the server MUST
delete the attachment resource.
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E. Upon successful removal of the attachment resource and
modification of the targeted calendar object resource, the
server MUST return a 200 HTTP status response. It is
expected that the client will immediately reload the calendar
object resource to refresh any local cache.
In the following example, the client deletes an existing attachment
by passing its managed-id in the request. The Prefer
[I-D.snell-http-prefer] HTTP header is not set in the request so the
calendar resource is not returned in the response.
>> Request <<
POST /events/64.ics?action=attachment-remove&managed-id=97S HTTP/1.1
Host: cal.example.com
Content-Length: 0
>> Response <<
HTTP/1.1 200 No Content
Content-Length: 0
4.7. Adding Existing Managed Attachments via PUT
Clients can make use of existing managed attachments by adding the
corresponding "ATTACH" property to calendar object resources (subject
to the restrictions described in Section 4.11.2).
4.8. Updating Attachments via PUT
Servers MUST NOT allow clients to update attachment data directly via
a PUT on the attachment URI (or via any other HTTP method that
modifies content).
4.9. Removing Attachments via PUT
Clients can remove attachments by simply re-writing the calendar
object resource data to remove the appropriate "ATTACH" properties.
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4.10. Retrieving Attachments
Clients retrieve attachments by simply issuing an HTTP GET request
using the value of the corresponding "ATTACH" property as the
request-URI, taking into account the substitution mechanism
associated with the "CALDAV:managed-attachments-server-URL" property
(see Section 7.1).
4.11. Additional Considerations
4.11.1. Error Handling
TODO: error codes for each request.
4.11.2. Access Control
TODO: talk about authentication for attachment URIs, access limited
to attendees only, or token based, only organizer able to re-use
"ATTACH" properties.
4.11.3. Redirects
For POST requests that add or update attachment data, the server MAY
issue an HTTP redirect to require the client to re-issue the POST
request using a different request-URI. As a result, it is always
best for clients to use the "100 Continue" behavior defined in
Section 8.2.3 of [RFC2616]. Using this mechanism ensures that, if a
redirect does occur, the client does not needlessly send the
attachment data.
When servers do redirect clients to a different request-URI, they
SHOULD ensure that the authentication/authorization for the
redirected URI falls within the same domain realm as that of the
original URI, so that the client can re-use credentials without
having to prompt the user.
4.11.4. Automatic Clean-up by servers
Servers MAY automatically remove attachment data as appropriate, for
example to regain the storage taken by unused attachments, or as the
result of a virus scanning. When doing so they SHOULD NOT modify
calendar data referencing those attachments. Instead they SHOULD
return a 410 HTTP status response to any request on the removed
attachment URI.
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4.11.5. Sending Scheduling Messages with Attachments
When a managed attachment is added, updated or removed from a
calendar object resource, the server MUST ensure that a scheduling
message is sent to update any Attendees with the changes, as per
[I-D.desruisseaux-caldav-sched].
4.11.6. Attendees managing Attachments
TODO: how do we do this? Organizer adds a property to calendar data
to say attendees can add attachments, but how does scheduling happen?
4.11.7. Other Client Considerations
Clients can expect servers to take a while to respond to POST
requests that include large attachment bodies. Servers SHOULD use
the "100 Continue" behavior defined in Section 8.2.3 of [RFC2616] to
keep the client connection alive if the response will take some time.
When exporting calendar data from a CalDAV server supporting managed
attachments, clients SHOULD remove all "MANAGED-ID" property
parameters from "ATTACH" properties in the calendar data. Similarly
when importing calendar data from another source, clients SHOULD
remove any "MANAGED-ID" property parameters on "ATTACH" properties
(failure to do so will likely result in the server removing those
properties automatically).
5. Modifications to iCalendar Syntax
5.1. SIZE Property Parameter
Parameter Name: SIZE
Purpose: To specify the size of an attachment.
Format Definition: This property parameter is defined by the
following notation:
sizeparam = "SIZE" "=" paramtext
; positive integers
Description: This property parameter MAY be specified on "ATTACH"
properties. It indicates the size in octets of the corresponding
attachment data. Since iCalendar integer values are restricted to
a maximum value of 2147483647, the current parameter is defined as
text to allow an extended range to be used.
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Example:
ATTACH;SIZE=1234:http://attachments.example.com/abcd.txt
5.2. FILENAME Property Parameter
Parameter Name: FILENAME
Purpose: To specify the file name of a managed attachment.
Format Definition: This property parameter is defined by the
following notation:
filenameparam = "FILENAME" "=" paramtext
Description: This property parameter MAY be specified on "ATTACH"
properties corresponding to managed attachments. Its value
provides information on how to construct a filename for storing
the attachment data. This parameter is very similar in nature to
the Content-Disposition HTTP header "filename" parameter and
exposes the same security risks. As a consequence, clients MUST
follow the guidelines expressed in Section 4.3 of [RFC6266] when
consuming this parameter value. Similarly, servers MUST follow
those same guidelines before storing a value.
Example:
ATTACH;FILENAME=agenda.html:http://attachments.example.c
om/rt452S
5.3. MANAGED-ID Property Parameter
Parameter Name: MANAGED-ID
Purpose: To uniquely identify a managed attachment.
Format Definition: This property parameter is defined by the
following notation:
managedidparam = "MANAGED-ID" "=" paramtext
Description: This property parameter MUST be specified on "ATTACH"
properties corresponding to managed attachments. Its value is
generated by the server and uniquely identifies a managed
attachment. This property parameter MUST NOT be present in the
case of non managed attachments.
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Example:
ATTACH;MANAGED-ID=aUNhbGVuZGFy:http://attachments.example.c
om/abcd.txt
5.4. MTAG Property Parameter
Parameter Name: MTAG
Purpose: To track changes made to a managed attachment.
Format Definition: This property parameter is defined by the
following notation:
mtagparam = "MTAG" "=" paramtext
Description: This property parameter MUST be specified on "ATTACH"
properties corresponding to managed attachments. Its value is an
opaque token, that represents the state of the attachment resource
at a given point in time. It MUST be unique across all versions
of a given resource. Servers MUST change the MTAG value whenever
an attachment resource content is modified, thus allowing clients
to use it as a change token. This property parameter MUST NOT be
present in the case of non managed attachments.
Example:
ATTACH;MTOKEN=12C:http://attachments.example.c
om/abcd.txt
6. Additional Message Header Fields
6.1. Cal-Managed-ID Response Header
The Cal-Managed-ID response header provides the value of the
MANAGED-ID parameter corresponding to a newly added ATTACH property.
It MUST be sent only in response to a successful POST request with an
action set to attachment-add.
Cal-Managed-ID = "Cal-Managed-ID" ":" paramtext
; "paramtext" is defined in Section 3.1 of [RFC5545]
Example:
Cal-Managed-ID:aUNhbGVuZGFy
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7. Additional WebDAV properties
7.1. CALDAV:managed-attachments-server-URL property
Name: managed-attachments-server-URL
Namespace: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav
Purpose: Specifies the server base URI to use when retrieving
managed attachments.
Protected: This property MUST be protected as only the server can
update the value.
COPY/MOVE behavior: This property is only defined on a calendar home
collection which cannot be moved or copied.
Description: This property MAY be defined on a calendar home
collection. If present, it contains zero or one DAV:href XML
elements.
When one DAV:href element is present, its value MUST be an
absolute HTTP URI containing only the scheme (i.e. "https") and
authority (i.e. host and port) parts . Whenever a managed
attachment is to be retrieved via an HTTP GET, the client MUST
construct the actual URL of the attachment by substituting the
scheme and authority parts of the attachment URI (as stored in the
iCalendar ATTACH property) with the present WebDAV property value.
When no DAV:href element is present, the client MUST substitute
the scheme and authority parts of the attachment URI with the
scheme and authority part of the calendar home collection absolute
URI.
In the absence of this property, the client can consider the
attachment URI as its actual URL.
Definition:
<!ELEMENT managed-attachments-server-URL (DAV:href?)>
Example:
<C:managed-attachments-server-URL xmlns:D="DAV:"
xmlns:C="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav">
<D:href>https://attachstore.example.com</D:href>
</C:managed-attachments-server-URL>
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8. Security Considerations
TODO:servers need to enforce quotas, attachments could contain
malicious content (virus checking could be done)
9. IANA Considerations
9.1. Parameter Registrations
This documents defines the following new iCalendar property
parameters to be added to the registry defined in Section 8.2.3 of
[RFC5545]:
+--------------------+---------+----------------------+
| Property Parameter | Status | Reference |
+--------------------+---------+----------------------+
| FILENAME | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 5.2 |
| MTAG | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 5.4 |
| SIZE | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 5.1 |
| MANAGED-ID | Current | RFCXXXX, Section 5.3 |
+--------------------+---------+----------------------+
9.2. Message Header Field Registrations
The message header fields below should be added to the Permanent
Message Header Field Registry (see [RFC3864]).
9.2.1. Cal-Managed-ID
Header field name: Cal-Managed-ID
Applicable protocol: http
Status: standard
Author/Change controller: IETF
Specification document(s): this specification (Section 6.1)
Related information: none
10. Acknowledgments
This specification came about via discussions at the Calendaring and
Scheduling Consortium.
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11. References
11.1. Normative References
[I-D.desruisseaux-caldav-sched]
Daboo, C. and B. Desruisseaux, "CalDAV Scheduling
Extensions to WebDAV", draft-desruisseaux-caldav-sched-10
(work in progress), September 2011.
[I-D.snell-http-prefer]
Snell, J., "Prefer Header for HTTP",
draft-snell-http-prefer-12 (work in progress),
February 2012.
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC2616] Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Frystyk, H.,
Masinter, L., Leach, P., and T. Berners-Lee, "Hypertext
Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", RFC 2616, June 1999.
[RFC3864] Klyne, G., Nottingham, M., and J. Mogul, "Registration
Procedures for Message Header Fields", BCP 90, RFC 3864,
September 2004.
[RFC4791] Daboo, C., Desruisseaux, B., and L. Dusseault,
"Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV)", RFC 4791,
March 2007.
[RFC5234] Crocker, D. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax
Specifications: ABNF", STD 68, RFC 5234, January 2008.
[RFC5545] Desruisseaux, B., "Internet Calendaring and Scheduling
Core Object Specification (iCalendar)", RFC 5545,
September 2009.
[RFC6266] Reschke, J., "Use of the Content-Disposition Header Field
in the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)", RFC 6266,
June 2011.
11.2. Informative References
[RFC5546] Daboo, C., "iCalendar Transport-Independent
Interoperability Protocol (iTIP)", RFC 5546,
December 2009.
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Appendix A. Change History (To be removed by RFC Editor before
publication)
Changes in -01:
1. Tweaked OPTIONS capability wording.
2. Added section on clients expecting 100-Continue for delayed
response.
3. Added text for clean-up and use of HTTP 410 on orphans.
4. Added text on removing "MANAGED-ID" when exporting/importing
calendar data.
5. Added protocol examples.
6. Added MTAG property parameter on ATTACH property
7. Added FILENAME property parameter on ATTACH property
8. "id" query parameter is now "managed-id".
9. Use of Cal-Managed-ID header instead of Location header in
responses.
10. rid query param MUST contain RECURRENCE-ID without any
conversion to UTC (case of floating events).
11. Introduced CALDAV:managed-attachments-server-URL property
12. Made support for Prefer header a MUST for servers.
Appendix B. Example Involving Recurring Events
In the following example, the organizer of a recurring meeting adds
an agenda (HTML attachment) to the corresponding calendar resource.
Attendees of the meeting are granted read access to the newly created
attachment resource. Their own copy of the meeting is updated to
include the new ATTACH property pointing to the attachment resource
and they are notified of the change via their scheduling inbox.
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>> Request <<
POST /events/65.ics?action=attachment-add HTTP/1.1
Host: cal.example.com
Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"
Content-Disposition:attachment;filename=agenda.html
Content-Length: xxxx
Prefer: return-representation
<html>
<body>
<h1>Agenda</h1>
<p>As usual</p>
</body>
</html
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>> Response <<
HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Type: text/calendar charset="utf-8"
Content-Length: yyyy
Content-Location: http://cal.example.com/events/65.ics
ETag: "123456789-000-111"
Cal-Managed-ID: 97S
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Example Corp.//CalDAV Server//EN
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
LAST-MODIFIED:20040110T032845Z
TZID:US/Eastern
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
DTSTART:20000404T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=4
TZNAME:EDT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
DTSTART:20001026T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10
TZNAME:EST
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20010712T182145Z-123401@example.com
DTSTAMP:20120201T203412Z
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20120206T100000
DURATION:PT1H
RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY
SUMMARY:Planning Meeting
ORGANIZER:mailto:cyrus@example.com
ATTENDEE;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED:mailto:cyrus@example.com
ATTENDEE;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED:mailto:arnaudq@example.com
ATTENDEE;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION:mailto:mike@example.com
ATTACH;MANAGED-ID=97S;MTAG=987654321-555-441;FMT-TYPE=text/html;
SIZE=xxxx;
FILENAME=agenda.html:https://cal.example.com/attach/65/34X22R
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
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The organizer has a more specific agenda for the 20th of February
meeting. It is added to that particular instance of the meeting by
specifying the rid parameter.
>> Request <<
POST /events/65.ics?action=attachment-add&rid=20120220T100000 HTTP/1.1
Host: cal.example.com
Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"
Content-Disposition:attachment;filename=agenda0220.html
Content-Length: xxxx
Prefer: return-representation
<html>
<body>
<h1>Agenda</h1>
<p>Something different, for a change</p>
</body>
</html
>> Response <<
HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Type: text/calendar charset="utf-8"
Content-Length: yyyy
Content-Location: http://cal.example.com/events/65.ics
ETag: "123456789-000-222"
Cal-Managed-ID: 33225
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Example Corp.//CalDAV Server//EN
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
LAST-MODIFIED:20040110T032845Z
TZID:US/Eastern
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
DTSTART:20000404T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=4
TZNAME:EDT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
DTSTART:20001026T020000
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RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10
TZNAME:EST
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20010712T182145Z-123401@example.com
DTSTAMP:20120201T203412Z
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20120206T100000
DURATION:PT1H
RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY
SUMMARY:Planning Meeting
ORGANIZER:mailto:cyrus@example.com
ATTENDEE;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED:mailto:cyrus@example.com
ATTENDEE;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED:mailto:arnaudq@example.com
ATTENDEE;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION:mailto:mike@example.com
ATTACH;MANAGED-ID=97S;MTAG=987654321-555-441;FMT-TYPE=text/html;
SIZE=xxxx;
FILENAME=agenda.html:https://cal.example.com/attach/65/34X22R
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20010712T182145Z-123401@example.com
RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=US/Eastern:20120220T100000
DTSTAMP:20120201T203412Z
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20120220T100000
DURATION:PT1H
SUMMARY:Planning Meeting
ORGANIZER:mailto:cyrus@example.com
ATTENDEE;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED:mailto:cyrus@example.com
ATTENDEE;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED:mailto:arnaudq@example.com
ATTENDEE;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION:mailto:mike@example.com
ATTACH;MANAGED-ID=33225;MTAG=987654321-555-263;FMT-TYPE=text/html;
SIZE=xxxx;
FILENAME=agenda0220.html:https://cal.example.com/attach/65/FGZ225
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
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Authors' Addresses
Cyrus Daboo
Apple Inc.
1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
USA
Email: cyrus@daboo.name
URI: http://www.apple.com/
Arnaud Quillaud
Oracle Corporation
180, Avenue de l'Europe
Saint Ismier cedex, 38334
France
Email: arnaud.quillaud@oracle.com
URI: http://www.oracle.com/
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