Network Working Group J. Reschke Internet-Draft greenbytes Updates: 2518 (if approved) May 31, 2004 Expires: November 29, 2004 Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) Locking Protocol draft-reschke-webdav-locking-01 Status of this Memo By submitting this Internet-Draft, I certify that any applicable patent or other IPR claims of which I am aware have been disclosed, and any of which I become aware will be disclosed, in accordance with RFC 3668. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. This Internet-Draft will expire on November 29, 2004. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004). All Rights Reserved. Abstract This document specifies a set of methods and headers ancillary to HTTP/1.1 (RFC2616) and Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV, RFC2518) for the management of resource locking (collision avoidance). It updates those sections from RFC2518 that specify WebDAV's locking features. Editorial Note [[anchor1: Note that this document is not a product of the WebDAV Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 1]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 working group. It is just an experiment to study the feasability of extracing the locking feature into a separate specification. --reschke]] Distribution of this document is unlimited. Please send comments to the WebDAV working group at w3c-dist-auth@w3.org [1], which may be joined by sending a message with subject "subscribe" to w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org [2]. Discussions of the WEBDAV working group are archived at URL: . Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.1 Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.2 Method Preconditions and Postconditions . . . . . . . . . 5 2. Overview of Locking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3. Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.1 Common XML elements used in property values . . . . . . . 6 3.1.1 Lock Scopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.1.2 Lock Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.2 DAV:lockdiscovery property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.2.1 Examples for the DAV:lockdiscovery . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.3 DAV:supportedlock property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.3.1 Examples for the DAV:supportedlock property . . . . . 9 4. LOCK Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 5. UNLOCK Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 6. Additional status codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 6.1 423 Locked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 7. Additional method semantics for other Methods . . . . . . . . 9 8. Capability discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 8.1 OPTIONS method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 9. Security considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 9.1 Privacy Issues Connected to Locks . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 10. Internationalization Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 11. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 12. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 13. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 A. Changes to RFC2518 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 A.1 Removed/Deprecated features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 A.1.1 Implicit lock refresh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 A.1.2 Lock-null resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 A.2 Additional features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 A.2.1 DAV:lockroot element in DAV:activelock . . . . . . . . 13 B. Text to be integrated from RFC2518 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 B.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 B.2 Locking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 2]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 B.2.1 Exclusive Vs. Shared Locks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 B.2.2 Required Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 B.2.3 Lock Tokens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 B.2.4 Lock Capability Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 B.2.5 Active Lock Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 B.2.6 Usage Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 B.3 Write Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 B.3.1 Methods Restricted by Write Locks . . . . . . . . . . 17 B.3.2 Write Locks and Lock Tokens . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 B.3.3 Write Locks and Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 B.3.4 Write Locks and Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 B.3.5 Write Locks and the If Request Header . . . . . . . . 18 B.3.6 Write Locks and COPY/MOVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 B.3.7 Refreshing Write Locks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 B.4 HTTP Methods for Distributed Authoring . . . . . . . . . . 20 B.4.1 LOCK Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 B.4.2 UNLOCK Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 B.5 HTTP Headers for Distributed Authoring . . . . . . . . . . 28 B.5.1 Depth Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 B.5.2 If Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 B.5.3 Lock-Token Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 B.5.4 Timeout Request Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 B.6 XML Element Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 B.6.1 lockinfo XML Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 C. GULP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 C.1 Directly vs Indirectly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 C.2 Creating Locks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 C.3 Lock Inheritance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 C.4 Removing Locks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 C.5 Submitting Lock Tokens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 C.6 Locked State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 C.7 URL protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 C.8 Exclusive vs Shared . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 D. 'opaquelocktoken' URI Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 D.1 Node Field Generation Without the IEEE 802 Address . . . . 32 E. Change Log (to be removed by RFC Editor before publication) . 34 E.1 Since draft-reschke-webdav-locking-00 . . . . . . . . . . 34 F. Resolved issues (to be removed by RFC Editor before publication) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 F.1 extract-locking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 F.2 updated-rfc2068 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 F.3 040_LOCK_ISSUES_07 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 F.4 rfc2606-compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 F.5 073_LOCKDISCOVERY_ON_UNLOCKED_RESOURCE . . . . . . . . . . 35 F.6 040_LOCK_ISSUES_02 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 F.7 040_LOCK_ISSUES_01 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 F.8 022_COPY_OVERWRITE_LOCK_NULL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 F.9 043_NULL_LOCK_SLASH_URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 3]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 F.10 077_LOCK_NULL_STATUS_CREATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 F.11 080_DEFER_LOCK_NULL_RESOURCES_IN_SPEC . . . . . . . . . . 38 F.12 040_LOCK_ISSUES_05 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 F.13 037_DEEP_LOCK_ERROR_STATUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 F.14 039_MISSING_LOCK_TOKEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 F.15 065_UNLOCK_WHAT_URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 F.16 025_LOCK_REFRESH_BY_METHODS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 F.17 089_FINDING_THE_ROOT_OF_A_DEPTH_LOCK . . . . . . . . . . . 40 F.18 109_HOW_TO_FIND_THE_ROOT_OF_A_LOCK . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 F.19 111_MULTIPLE_TOKENS_PER_LOCK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 F.20 101_LOCKDISCOVERY_FORMAT_FOR_MULTIPLE_SHARED_LOCKS . . . . 41 G. Open issues (to be removed by RFC Editor prior to publication) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 G.1 import-rfc3253-stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 G.2 import-gulp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 G.3 edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 G.4 008_URI_URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 G.5 040_LOCK_ISSUES_06 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 G.6 044_REPORT_OTHER_RESOURCE_LOCKED . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 G.7 052_LOCK_BODY_SHOULD_BE_MUST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 G.8 054_IF_AND_AUTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 G.9 056_DEPTH_LOCK_AND_IF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 G.10 057_LOCK_SEMANTICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 G.11 063_LOCKS_SHOULD_THEY_USE_AN_IF_HEADER_TO_VERIFY . . . . . 44 G.12 066_MUST_AN_IF_HEADER_CHECK_THE_ROOT_OF_URL . . . . . . . 45 G.13 067_UNLOCK_NEEDS_IF_HEADER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 G.14 068_UNLOCK_WITHOUT_GOOD_TOKEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 G.15 070_LOCK_RENEWAL_SHOULD_NOT_USE_IF_HEADER . . . . . . . . 46 G.16 072_LOCK_URL_WITH_NO_PARENT_COLLECTION . . . . . . . . . . 46 G.17 079_UNLOCK_BY_NON_LOCK_OWNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 G.18 088_DAVOWNER_FIELD_IS_CLIENT_CONTROLED . . . . . . . . . . 47 G.19 099_COPYMOVE_LOCKED_STATUS_CODE_CLARIFICATION . . . . . . 47 G.20 100_COPYMOVE_LOCKED_STATUS_DESCRIPTION . . . . . . . . . . 47 G.21 040_LOCK_ISSUES_08 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 G.22 040_LOCK_ISSUES_03 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 G.23 040_LOCK_ISSUES_04 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 G.24 053_LOCK_INHERITANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 G.25 060_LOCK_REFRESH_BODY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 G.26 015_MOVE_SECTION_6.4.1_TO_APPX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . 52 Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 4]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 1. Introduction 1.1 Terminology The terminology used here follows and extends that in the WebDAV Distributed Authoring Protocol specification [RFC2518]. The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119]. This document uses XML DTD fragments ([XML]) as a purely notational convention. WebDAV request and response bodies cannot be validated due to the specific extensibility rules defined in section 23 of [RFC2518] and due to the fact that all XML elements defined by this specification use the XML namespace name "DAV:". In particular: o Element names use the "DAV:" namespace. o Element ordering is irrelevant. o Extension elements/attributes (elements/attributes not already defined as valid child elements) may be added anywhere, except when explicitly stated otherwise. 1.2 Method Preconditions and Postconditions A "precondition" of a method describes the state on the server that must be true for that method to be performed. A "postcondition" of a method describes the state on the server that must be true after that method has completed. If a method precondition or postcondition for a request is not satisfied and unless the specific condition does not define a more specific HTTP status code, the response status of the request MUST be either 403 (Forbidden) if the request should not be repeated because it will always fail, or 409 (Conflict) if it is expected that the user might be able to resolve the conflict and resubmit the request. In order to allow better client handling of error responses, a distinct XML element type is associated with each method precondition and postcondition of a request. When a particular precondition is not satisfied or a particular postcondition cannot be achieved, the appropriate XML element MUST be returned as the child of a top-level DAV:error element in the response body, unless otherwise negotiated by the request. In a 207 Multi-Status response, the DAV:error element would appear in the appropriate DAV:responsedescription element. Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 5]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 2. Overview of Locking 3. Properties The locking feature introduces the following properties for a resource. 3.1 Common XML elements used in property values 3.1.1 Lock Scopes <!ELEMENT lockscope (exclusive | shared) > <!ELEMENT exclusive EMPTY > <!ELEMENT shared EMPTY > 3.1.2 Lock Types <!ELEMENT locktype (write) > <!ELEMENT write EMPTY > At present, this specification only defines one lock type, the write lock. 3.2 DAV:lockdiscovery property The DAV:lockdiscovery property returns a listing of who has a lock, what type of lock he has, the timeout type, the time remaining on the timeout, the associated lock token and the root of the lock. The server is free to withhold any or all of this information if the requesting principal does not have sufficient access rights to see the requested data. <!ELEMENT lockdiscovery (activelock)* > <!ELEMENT activelock (lockscope, locktype, depth, owner?, timeout?, locktoken?, lockroot) > depth: the value of the Depth header (see Appendix B.5.1; takes the values "0", "1" or "infinity". <!ELEMENT depth (#PCDATA) > owner: provides information about the principal taking out a lock; should be sufficient for either directly contacting a principal (such as a telephone number or email URI), or for discovering the principal (such as the URL of a homepage). Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 6]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 <!ELEMENT owner ANY> timeout: the timeout associated with a lock (defined in Appendix B.5.4). <!ELEMENT timeout (#PCDATA) > locktoken: the lock token associated with a lock; the href element contains the lock token. <!ELEMENT locktoken (href) > lockroot: the URL of the resource that was addressed in the LOCK request; the href element contains the URL of the resource to which the LOCK request has been applied. <!ELEMENT lockroot (href) > href: defined in [RFC2518], section 12.3. <!ELEMENT lockroot (href) > 3.2.1 Examples for the DAV:lockdiscovery Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 7]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 DAV:lockdiscovery property for a resource that has two shared write locks on it, with infinite timeouts: <D:lockdiscovery xmlns:D="DAV:"> <D:activelock> <D:locktype><D:write/></D:locktype> <D:lockscope><D:shared/></D:lockscope> <D:depth>0</D:depth> <D:owner>Jane Smith</D:owner> <D:timeout>Infinite</D:timeout> <D:locktoken> <D:href >opaquelocktoken:f81de2ad-7f3d-a1b2-4f3c-00a0c91a9d76</D:href> </D:locktoken> <D:lockroot> <D:href >http://example.com/container/</D:href> </D:lockroot> </D:activelock> </D:lockdiscovery> <D:lockdiscovery> <D:activelock> <D:locktype><D:write/></D:locktype> <D:lockscope><D:shared/></D:lockscope> <D:depth>0</D:depth> <D:owner>John Doe</D:owner> <D:timeout>Infinite</D:timeout> <D:locktoken> <D:href >opaquelocktoken:f81de2ad-7f3d-a1b2-4f3c-00a0c91a9d77</D:href> </D:locktoken> <D:lockroot> <D:href >http://example.com/container/</D:href> </D:lockroot> </D:activelock> </D:lockdiscovery> DAV:lockdiscovery property for a resource with no locks on it: <D:lockdiscovery xmlns:D="DAV:"/> 3.3 DAV:supportedlock property The DAV:supportedlock property of a resource returns a listing of the combinations of scope and access types which may be specified in a lock request on the resource. Note that the actual contents are Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 8]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 themselves controlled by access controls so a server is not required to provide information the client is not authorized to see. <!ELEMENT supportedlock (lockentry)* > <!ELEMENT lockentry (lockscope, locktype) > 3.3.1 Examples for the DAV:supportedlock property DAV:supportedlock property for a resource that supports both exclusive and shares write locks: <D:supportedlock xmlns:D="DAV:"> <D:lockentry> <D:lockscope><D:exclusive/></D:lockscope> <D:locktype><D:write/></D:locktype> </D:lockentry> <D:lockentry> <D:lockscope><D:shared/></D:lockscope> <D:locktype><D:write/></D:locktype> </D:lockentry> </D:supportedlock> DAV:supportedlock property for a resource that doesn't support any locks at all: <D:supportedlock xmlns:D="DAV:"/> 4. LOCK Method 5. UNLOCK Method 6. Additional status codes 6.1 423 Locked The 423 (Locked) status code means the source or destination resource of a method is locked. 7. Additional method semantics for other Methods 8. Capability discovery 8.1 OPTIONS method If the server supports locking, it MUST return both the compliance class names "2" and "locking" as fields in the "DAV" response header Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 9]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 (see [RFC2518], section 9.1) from an OPTIONS request on any resource implemented by that server. A value of "2" or "locking" in the "DAV" response header MUST indicate that the server meets all class "1" requirements defined in [RFC2518] and supports all MUST level requirements and REQUIRED features specified in this document, including: o LOCK and UNLOCK methods, o DAV:lockdiscovery and DAV:supportedlock properties, o "Time-Out" request header, "Lock-Token" request and response header. Note that for servers implementing this specification, the compliance classes "2" and "locking" are synonymous. However, new clients can take advantage of the new "locking" compliance class to detect server support for changes introduced by this specification (see Appendix A). 9. Security considerations All security considerations mentioned in [RFC2518] also apply to this document. Additionally, lock tokens introduce new privacy issues discussed below. 9.1 Privacy Issues Connected to Locks When submitting a lock request a user agent may also submit an owner XML field giving contact information for the person taking out the lock (for those cases where a person, rather than a robot, is taking out the lock). This contact information is stored in a DAV:lockdiscovery property on the resource, and can be used by other collaborators to begin negotiation over access to the resource. However, in many cases this contact information can be very private, and should not be widely disseminated. Servers SHOULD limit read access to the DAV:lockdiscovery property as appropriate. Furthermore, user agents SHOULD provide control over whether contact information is sent at all, and if contact information is sent, control over exactly what information is sent. 10. Internationalization Considerations All internationalization considerations mentioned in [RFC2518] also apply to this document. Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 10]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 11. IANA Considerations This specification updates the definition of the "opaquelocktoken" URI scheme described in Appendix D, registered my means of [RFC2518], section 6.4. There are no additional IANA considerations. 12. Acknowledgements This document is the collaborative product of o the authors, o the maintainers of RFC2518bis - Jason Crawford and Lisa Dusseault - and o the original authors of RFC2518 - Steve Carter, Asad Faizi, Yaron Goland, Del Jensen and Jim Whitehead. This document has also benefited from thoughtful discussion by Mark Anderson, Dan Brotksy, Geoff Clemm, Jim Davis, Stefan Eissing, Rickard Falk, Larry Masinter, Joe Orton, Juergen Pill, Elias Sinderson, Greg Stein, Kevin Wiggen, and other members of the WebDAV working group. 13 Normative References [ISO-11578] International Organization for Standardization, "ISO/IEC 11578:1996. Information technology - Open Systems Interconnection - Remote Procedure Call (RPC)", 1996. [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [RFC2396] Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R. and L. Masinter, "Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax", RFC 2396, August 1998. [RFC2518] Goland, Y., Whitehead, E., Faizi, A., Carter, S. and D. Jensen, "HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring -- WEBDAV", RFC 2518, February 1999. [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. [XML] Bray, T., Paoli, J., Sperberg-McQueen, C., Maler, E. and F. Yergeau, "Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Third Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 11]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 Edition)", W3C REC-xml-20040204, February 2004, <http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204>. [1] <mailto:w3c-dist-auth@w3.org> [2] <mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org?subject=subscribe> Author's Address Julian F. Reschke greenbytes GmbH Salzmannstrasse 152 Muenster, NW 48159 Germany Phone: +49 251 2807760 Fax: +49 251 2807761 EMail: julian.reschke@greenbytes.de URI: http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/ Appendix A. Changes to RFC2518 See Section 8 for a description about how clients can discover support for this version of the WebDAV Locking protocol. A.1 Removed/Deprecated features A.1.1 Implicit lock refresh In section 9.8, [RFC2518] specifies that locks should be refreshed implicitly every time "...any time an owner of the lock sends a method to any member of the lock, including unsupported methods, or methods which are unsuccessful." This features has been removed (locks need to be refreshed explicitly using the LOCK method). Compatibility considerations Clients historically have never relied on this feature as it was never implemented in widely deployed WebDAV servers. A.1.2 Lock-null resources In section 7.4, [RFC2518] specifies a special resource type called "lock-null resource" that's being created when a LOCK method request is applied to a null resource. In practice, no real interoperability was achieved because many servers failed to implement this feature Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 12]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 properly and few clients (if any) ever relied on that particular functionality. Removing this feature also means that there is no atomic way to create a collection in locked state, but in practice, this doesn't seem to be a problem. Compatibility considerations There do not seem to be any widely deployed clients that actually relied on "lock-null resources". A.2 Additional features A.2.1 DAV:lockroot element in DAV:activelock Clients can take advantage of the new DAV:lockroot element to discover the URL to which the LOCK request (that created the lock) was applied. Compatiblity consideration Clients will have to fail gracefully when communicating with older servers that do not support the new property. Appendix B. Text to be integrated from RFC2518 B.1 Introduction Locking: The ability to keep more than one person from working on a document at the same time. This prevents the "lost update problem," in which modifications are lost as first one author then another writes changes without merging the other author's changes. B.2 Locking The ability to lock a resource provides a mechanism for serializing access to that resource. Using a lock, an authoring client can provide a reasonable guarantee that another principal will not modify a resource while it is being edited. In this way, a client can prevent the "lost update" problem. This specification allows locks to vary over two client-specified parameters, the number of principals involved (exclusive vs. shared) and the type of access to be granted. This document defines locking for only one access type, write. However, the syntax is extensible, Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 13]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 and permits the eventual specification of locking for other access types. B.2.1 Exclusive Vs. Shared Locks The most basic form of lock is an exclusive lock. This is a lock where the access right in question is only granted to a single principal. The need for this arbitration results from a desire to avoid having to merge results. However, there are times when the goal of a lock is not to exclude others from exercising an access right but rather to provide a mechanism for principals to indicate that they intend to exercise their access rights. Shared locks are provided for this case. A shared lock allows multiple principals to receive a lock. Hence any principal with appropriate access can get the lock. With shared locks there are two trust sets that affect a resource. The first trust set is created by access permissions. Principals who are trusted, for example, may have permission to write to the resource. Among those who have access permission to write to the resource, the set of principals who have taken out a shared lock also must trust each other, creating a (typically) smaller trust set within the access permission write set. Starting with every possible principal on the Internet, in most situations the vast majority of these principals will not have write access to a given resource. Of the small number who do have write access, some principals may decide to guarantee their edits are free from overwrite conflicts by using exclusive write locks. Others may decide they trust their collaborators will not overwrite their work (the potential set of collaborators being the set of principals who have write permission) and use a shared lock, which informs their collaborators that a principal may be working on the resource. The WebDAV extensions to HTTP do not need to provide all of the communications paths necessary for principals to coordinate their activities. When using shared locks, principals may use any out of band communication channel to coordinate their work (e.g., face-to-face interaction, written notes, post-it notes on the screen, telephone conversation, Email, etc.) The intent of a shared lock is to let collaborators know who else may be working on a resource. Shared locks are included because experience from web distributed authoring systems has indicated that exclusive locks are often too rigid. An exclusive lock is used to enforce a particular editing process: take out an exclusive lock, read the resource, perform edits, write the resource, release the lock. This editing process Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 14]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 has the problem that locks are not always properly released, for example when a program crashes, or when a lock owner leaves without unlocking a resource. While both timeouts and administrative action can be used to remove an offending lock, neither mechanism may be available when needed; the timeout may be long or the administrator may not be available. B.2.2 Required Support A WebDAV compliant server is not required to support locking in any form. If the server does support locking it may choose to support any combination of exclusive and shared locks for any access types. The reason for this flexibility is that locking policy strikes to the very heart of the resource management and versioning systems employed by various storage repositories. These repositories require control over what sort of locking will be made available. For example, some repositories only support shared write locks while others only provide support for exclusive write locks while yet others use no locking at all. As each system is sufficiently different to merit exclusion of certain locking features, this specification leaves locking as the sole axis of negotiation within WebDAV. B.2.3 Lock Tokens A lock token is a type of state token, represented as a URI, which identifies a particular lock. A lock token is returned by every successful LOCK operation in the DAV:lockdiscovery property in the response body, and can also be found through lock discovery on a resource. Lock token URIs MUST be unique across all resources for all time. This uniqueness constraint allows lock tokens to be submitted across resources and servers without fear of confusion. This specification provides a lock token URI scheme called "opaquelocktoken" that meets the uniqueness requirements. However resources are free to return any URI scheme so long as it meets the uniqueness requirements. Submitting a lock token provides no special access rights. Anyone can find out anyone else's lock token by performing lock discovery. Locks MUST be enforced based upon whatever authentication mechanism is used by the server, not based on the secrecy of the token values. B.2.4 Lock Capability Discovery Since server lock support is optional, a client trying to lock a Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 15]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 resource on a server can either try the lock and hope for the best, or perform some form of discovery to determine what lock capabilities the server supports. This is known as lock capability discovery. Lock capability discovery differs from discovery of supported access control types, since there may be access control types without corresponding lock types. A client can determine what lock types the server supports by retrieving the DAV:supportedlock property. Any DAV compliant resource that supports the LOCK method MUST support the DAV:supportedlock property. B.2.5 Active Lock Discovery If another principal locks a resource that a principal wishes to access, it is useful for the second principal to be able to find out who the first principal is. For this purpose the DAV:lockdiscovery property is provided. This property lists all outstanding locks, describes their type, and where available, provides their lock token. Any DAV compliant resource that supports the LOCK method MUST support the DAV:lockdiscovery property. B.2.6 Usage Considerations Although the locking mechanisms specified here provide some help in preventing lost updates, they cannot guarantee that updates will never be lost. Consider the following scenario: o Two clients A and B are interested in editing the resource 'index.html'. Client A is an HTTP client rather than a WebDAV client, and so does not know how to perform locking. o Client A doesn't lock the document, but does a GET and begins editing. o Client B does LOCK, performs a GET and begins editing. o Client B finishes editing, performs a PUT, then an UNLOCK. o Client A performs a PUT, overwriting and losing all of B's changes. There are several reasons why the WebDAV protocol itself cannot prevent this situation. First, it cannot force all clients to use locking because it must be compatible with HTTP clients that do not comprehend locking. Second, it cannot require servers to support locking because of the variety of repository implementations, some of which rely on reservations and merging rather than on locking. Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 16]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 Finally, being stateless, it cannot enforce a sequence of operations like LOCK / GET / PUT / UNLOCK. WebDAV servers that support locking can reduce the likelihood that clients will accidentally overwrite each other's changes by requiring clients to lock resources before modifying them. Such servers would effectively prevent HTTP 1.0 and HTTP 1.1 clients from modifying resources. WebDAV clients can be good citizens by using a lock / retrieve / write /unlock sequence of operations (at least by default) whenever they interact with a WebDAV server that supports locking. HTTP 1.1 clients can be good citizens, avoiding overwriting other clients' changes, by using entity tags in If-Match headers with any requests that would modify resources. Information managers may attempt to prevent overwrites by implementing client-side procedures requiring locking before modifying WebDAV resources. B.3 Write Lock This section describes the semantics specific to the write lock type. The write lock is a specific instance of a lock type, and is the only lock type described in this specification. B.3.1 Methods Restricted by Write Locks A write lock MUST prevent a principal without the lock from successfully executing a PUT, POST, PROPPATCH, LOCK, UNLOCK, MOVE, DELETE, or MKCOL on the locked resource. All other current methods, GET in particular, function independently of the lock. Note, however, that as new methods are created it will be necessary to specify how they interact with a write lock. B.3.2 Write Locks and Lock Tokens A successful request for an exclusive or shared write lock MUST result in the generation of a unique lock token associated with the requesting principal. Thus if five principals have a shared write lock on the same resource there will be five lock tokens, one for each principal. B.3.3 Write Locks and Properties While those without a write lock may not alter a property on a Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 17]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 resource it is still possible for the values of live properties to change, even while locked, due to the requirements of their schemas. Only dead properties and live properties defined to respect locks are guaranteed not to change while write locked. B.3.4 Write Locks and Collections A write lock on a collection, whether created by a "Depth: 0" or "Depth: infinity" lock request, prevents the addition or removal of member URIs of the collection by non-lock owners. As a consequence, when a principal issues a PUT or POST request to create a new resource under a URI which needs to be an internal member of a write locked collection to maintain HTTP namespace consistency, or issues a DELETE to remove a resource which has a URI which is an existing internal member URI of a write locked collection, this request MUST fail if the principal does not have a write lock on the collection. However, if a write lock request is issued to a collection containing member URIs identifying resources that are currently locked in a manner which conflicts with the write lock, the request MUST fail with a 423 (Locked) status code. If a lock owner causes the URI of a resource to be added as an internal member URI of a locked collection then the new resource MUST be automatically added to the lock. This is the only mechanism that allows a resource to be added to a write lock. Thus, for example, if the collection /a/b/ is write locked and the resource /c is moved to /a/b/c then resource /a/b/c will be added to the write lock. B.3.5 Write Locks and the If Request Header If a user agent is not required to have knowledge about a lock when requesting an operation on a locked resource, the following scenario might occur. Program A, run by User A, takes out a write lock on a resource. Program B, also run by User A, has no knowledge of the lock taken out by Program A, yet performs a PUT to the locked resource. In this scenario, the PUT succeeds because locks are associated with a principal, not a program, and thus program B, because it is acting with principal A's credential, is allowed to perform the PUT. However, had program B known about the lock, it would not have overwritten the resource, preferring instead to present a dialog box describing the conflict to the user. Due to this scenario, a mechanism is needed to prevent different programs from accidentally ignoring locks taken out by other programs with the same authorization. In order to prevent these collisions a lock token MUST be submitted by an authorized principal in the If header for all locked resources Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 18]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 that a method may interact with or the method MUST fail. For example, if a resource is to be moved and both the source and destination are locked then two lock tokens must be submitted, one for the source and the other for the destination. B.3.5.1 Example - Write Lock >>Request COPY /~fielding/index.html HTTP/1.1 Host: example.com Destination: http://example.com/users/f/fielding/index.html If: <http://example.com/users/f/fielding/index.html> (<opaquelocktoken:f81d4fae-7dec-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf6>) >>Response HTTP/1.1 204 No Content In this example, even though both the source and destination are locked, only one lock token must be submitted, for the lock on the destination. This is because the source resource is not modified by a COPY, and hence unaffected by the write lock. In this example, user agent authentication has previously occurred via a mechanism outside the scope of the HTTP protocol, in the underlying transport layer. B.3.6 Write Locks and COPY/MOVE A COPY method invocation MUST NOT duplicate any write locks active on the source. However, as previously noted, if the COPY copies the resource into a collection that is locked with "Depth: infinity", then the resource will be added to the lock. A successful MOVE request on a write locked resource MUST NOT move the write lock with the resource. However, the resource is subject to being added to an existing lock at the destination, as specified in Appendix B.3.4. For example, if the MOVE makes the resource a child of a collection that is locked with "Depth: infinity", then the resource will be added to that collection's lock. Additionally, if a resource locked with "Depth: infinity" is moved to a destination that is within the scope of the same lock (e.g., within the namespace tree covered by the lock), the moved resource will again be a added to the lock. In both these examples, as specified in Appendix B.3.5, an If header must be submitted containing a lock token for both the source and destination. Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 19]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 B.3.7 Refreshing Write Locks A client MUST NOT submit the same write lock request twice. Note that a client is always aware it is resubmitting the same lock request because it must include the lock token in the If header in order to make the request for a resource that is already locked. However, a client may submit a LOCK method with an If header but without a body. This form of LOCK MUST only be used to "refresh" a lock. Meaning, at minimum, that any timers associated with the lock MUST be re-set. A server may return a Timeout header with a lock refresh that is different than the Timeout header returned when the lock was originally requested. Additionally clients may submit Timeout headers of arbitrary value with their lock refresh requests. Servers, as always, may ignore Timeout headers submitted by the client. If an error is received in response to a refresh LOCK request the client SHOULD assume that the lock was not refreshed. B.4 HTTP Methods for Distributed Authoring B.4.1 LOCK Method The following sections describe the LOCK method, which is used to take out a lock of any access type. These sections on the LOCK method describe only those semantics that are specific to the LOCK method and are independent of the access type of the lock being requested. Any resource which supports the LOCK method MUST, at minimum, support the XML request and response formats defined herein. B.4.1.1 Operation [[anchor40: Make sure updated method description discusses applying LOCK to null resources. --reschke]] A LOCK method invocation creates the lock specified by the lockinfo XML element on the resource identified by the Request-URI. Lock method requests SHOULD have a XML request body which contains an owner XML element for this lock request, unless this is a refresh request. The LOCK request may have a Timeout header. Clients MUST assume that locks may arbitrarily disappear at any time, regardless of the value given in the Timeout header. The Timeout Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 20]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 header only indicates the behavior of the server if "extraordinary" circumstances do not occur. For example, an administrator may remove a lock at any time or the system may crash in such a way that it loses the record of the lock's existence. The response MUST contain the value of the DAV:lockdiscovery property in a prop XML element. In order to indicate the lock token associated with a newly created lock, a Lock-Token response header MUST be included in the response for every successful LOCK request for a new lock. Note that the Lock-Token header would not be returned in the response for a successful refresh LOCK request because a new lock was not created. B.4.1.2 The Effect of Locks on Properties and Collections The scope of a lock is the entire state of the resource, including its body and associated properties. As a result, a lock on a resource MUST also lock the resource's properties. For collections, a lock also affects the ability to add or remove members. The nature of the effect depends upon the type of access control involved. B.4.1.3 Locking Replicated Resources A resource may be made available through more than one URI. However locks apply to resources, not URIs. Therefore a LOCK request on a resource MUST NOT succeed if can not be honored by all the URIs through which the resource is addressable. B.4.1.4 Depth and Locking The Depth header may be used with the LOCK method. Values other than 0 or infinity MUST NOT be used with the Depth header on a LOCK method. All resources that support the LOCK method MUST support the Depth header. A Depth header of value 0 means to just lock the resource specified by the Request-URI. If the Depth header is set to infinity then the resource specified in the Request-URI along with all its internal members, all the way down the hierarchy, are to be locked. A successful result MUST return a single lock token which represents all the resources that have been locked. If an UNLOCK is successfully executed on this token, all associated resources are unlocked. If the lock cannot be granted to all resources, a 207 (Multistatus) status code MUST be returned with a response entity body containing a multistatus XML element describing which resource(s) prevented the lock from being granted. Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 21]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 Hence, partial success is not an option. Either the entire hierarchy is locked or no resources are locked. If no Depth header is submitted on a LOCK request then the request MUST act as if a "Depth:infinity" had been submitted. B.4.1.5 Interaction with other Methods The interaction of a LOCK with various methods is dependent upon the lock type. However, independent of lock type, a successful DELETE of a resource MUST cause all of its locks to be removed. B.4.1.6 Lock Compatibility Table The table below describes the behavior that occurs when a lock request is made on a resource. +-------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ | Current lock state / | Shared Lock | Exclusive Lock | | Lock request | | | +-------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ | None | True | True | | Shared Lock | True | False | | Exclusive Lock | False | False* | +-------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ Legend: True = lock may be granted. False = lock MUST NOT be granted. *=It is illegal for a principal to request the same lock twice. The current lock state of a resource is given in the leftmost column, and lock requests are listed in the first row. The intersection of a row and column gives the result of a lock request. For example, if a shared lock is held on a resource, and an exclusive lock is requested, the table entry is "false", indicating the lock must not be granted. B.4.1.7 Status Codes 200 (OK) - The lock request succeeded and the value of the DAV:lockdiscovery property is included in the body. 412 (Precondition Failed) - The included lock token was not enforceable on this resource or the server could not satisfy the request in the lockinfo XML element. 423 (Locked) - The resource is locked, so the method has been rejected. Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 22]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 B.4.1.8 Example - Simple Lock Request >>Request LOCK /workspace/webdav/proposal.doc HTTP/1.1 Host: example.com Timeout: Infinite, Second-4100000000 Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8" Content-Length: xxxx Authorization: Digest username="ejw", realm="ejw@example.com", nonce="...", uri="/workspace/webdav/proposal.doc", response="...", opaque="..." <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <D:lockinfo xmlns:D='DAV:'> <D:lockscope><D:exclusive/></D:lockscope> <D:locktype><D:write/></D:locktype> <D:owner> <D:href>http://example.org/~ejw/contact.html</D:href> </D:owner> </D:lockinfo> Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 23]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 >>Response HTTP/1.1 200 OK Lock-Token: <opaquelocktoken:e71d4fae-5dec-22d6-fea5-00a0c91e6be4> Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8" Content-Length: xxxx <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <D:prop xmlns:D="DAV:"> <D:lockdiscovery> <D:activelock> <D:locktype><D:write/></D:locktype> <D:lockscope><D:exclusive/></D:lockscope> <D:depth>Infinity</D:depth> <D:owner> <D:href >http://example.org/~ejw/contact.html</D:href> </D:owner> <D:timeout>Second-604800</D:timeout> <D:locktoken> <D:href >opaquelocktoken:e71d4fae-5dec-22d6-fea5-00a0c91e6be4</D:href> </D:locktoken> <D:lockroot> <D:href >http://example.com/workspace/webdav/proposal.doc</D:href> </D:lockroot> </D:activelock> </D:lockdiscovery> </D:prop> This example shows the successful creation of an exclusive write lock on resource http://example.com/workspace/webdav/proposal.doc. The resource http:/example.org/~ejw/contact.html contains contact information for the owner of the lock. The server has an activity-based timeout policy in place on this resource, which causes the lock to automatically be removed after 1 week (604800 seconds). Note that the nonce, response, and opaque fields have not been calculated in the Authorization request header. Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 24]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 B.4.1.9 Example - Refreshing a Write Lock >>Request LOCK /workspace/webdav/proposal.doc HTTP/1.1 Host: example.com Timeout: Infinite, Second-4100000000 If: (<opaquelocktoken:e71d4fae-5dec-22d6-fea5-00a0c91e6be4>) Authorization: Digest username="ejw", realm="ejw@example.com", nonce="...", uri="/workspace/webdav/proposal.doc", response="...", opaque="..." >>Response HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8" Content-Length: xxxx <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <D:prop xmlns:D="DAV:"> <D:lockdiscovery> <D:activelock> <D:locktype><D:write/></D:locktype> <D:lockscope><D:exclusive/></D:lockscope> <D:depth>Infinity</D:depth> <D:owner> <D:href >http://example.org/~ejw/contact.html</D:href> </D:owner> <D:timeout>Second-604800</D:timeout> <D:locktoken> <D:href >opaquelocktoken:e71d4fae-5dec-22d6-fea5-00a0c91e6be4</D:href> </D:locktoken> <D:lockroot> <D:href >http://example.com/workspace/webdav/proposal.doc</D:href> </D:lockroot> </D:activelock> </D:lockdiscovery> </D:prop> This request would refresh the lock, resetting any time outs. Notice that the client asked for an infinite time out but the server choose to ignore the request. In this example, the nonce, response, and opaque fields have not been calculated in the Authorization request header. Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 25]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 B.4.1.10 Example - Multi-Resource Lock Request >>Request LOCK /webdav/ HTTP/1.1 Host: example.com Timeout: Infinite, Second-4100000000 Depth: infinity Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8" Content-Length: xxxx Authorization: Digest username="ejw", realm="ejw@example.com", nonce="...", uri="/workspace/webdav/proposal.doc", response="...", opaque="..." <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <D:lockinfo xmlns:D="DAV:"> <D:locktype><D:write/></D:locktype> <D:lockscope><D:exclusive/></D:lockscope> <D:owner> <D:href>http://example.org/~ejw/contact.html</D:href> </D:owner> </D:lockinfo> >>Response HTTP/1.1 207 Multi-Status Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8" Content-Length: xxxx <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <D:multistatus xmlns:D="DAV:"> <D:response> <D:href>/webdav/secret</D:href> <D:status>HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden</D:status> </D:response> <D:response> <D:href>/webdav/</D:href> <D:propstat> <D:prop><D:lockdiscovery/></D:prop> <D:status>HTTP/1.1 424 Failed Dependency</D:status> </D:propstat> </D:response> </D:multistatus> This example shows a request for an exclusive write lock on a collection and all its children. In this request, the client has specified that it desires an infinite length lock, if available, Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 26]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 otherwise a timeout of 4.1 billion seconds, if available. The request entity body contains the contact information for the principal taking out the lock, in this case a web page URL. The error is a 403 (Forbidden) response on the resource http://example.com/webdav/secret. Because this resource could not be locked, none of the resources were locked. Note also that the DAV:lockdiscovery property for the Request-URI has been included as required. In this example the DAV:lockdiscovery property is empty which means that there are no outstanding locks on the resource. In this example, the nonce, response, and opaque fields have not been calculated in the Authorization request header. B.4.2 UNLOCK Method The UNLOCK method removes the lock identified by the lock token in the Lock-Token request header from the resource identified by the Request-URI, and all other resources included in the lock. The Request-URI MUST identify the resource that is directly locked by that lock. If all resources which have been locked under the submitted lock token can not be unlocked then the UNLOCK request MUST fail. Any DAV compliant resource which supports the LOCK method MUST support the UNLOCK method. B.4.2.1 Example - UNLOCK >>Request UNLOCK /workspace/webdav/info.doc HTTP/1.1 Host: example.com Lock-Token: <opaquelocktoken:a515cfa4-5da4-22e1-f5b5-00a0451e6bf7> Authorization: Digest username="ejw", realm="ejw@example.com", nonce="...", uri="/workspace/webdav/proposal.doc", response="...", opaque="..." >>Response HTTP/1.1 204 No Content In this example, the lock identified by the lock token "opaquelocktoken:a515cfa4-5da4-22e1-f5b5-00a0451e6bf7" is successfully removed from the resource http://example.com/workspace/webdav/info.doc. If this lock included more than just one resource, the lock is removed from all resources Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 27]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 included in the lock. The 204 (No Content) status code is used instead of 200 (OK) because there is no response entity body. In this example, the nonce, response, and opaque fields have not been calculated in the Authorization request header. B.5 HTTP Headers for Distributed Authoring B.5.1 Depth Header [[anchor51: Add "Depth" header considerations: --reschke]] If a resource, source or destination, within the scope of the method with a Depth header is locked in such a way as to prevent the successful execution of the method, then the lock token for that resource MUST be submitted with the request in the If request header. B.5.2 If Header [[anchor52: Add "If" header considerations: --reschke]] B.5.3 Lock-Token Header Lock-Token = "Lock-Token" ":" Coded-URL The Lock-Token request header is used with the UNLOCK method to identify the lock to be removed. The lock token in the Lock-Token request header MUST identify a lock that contains the resource identified by Request-URI as a member. The Lock-Token response header is used with the LOCK method to indicate the lock token created as a result of a successful LOCK request to create a new lock. B.5.4 Timeout Request Header TimeOut = "Timeout" ":" 1#TimeType TimeType = ("Second-" DAVTimeOutVal | "Infinite" | Other) DAVTimeOutVal = 1*digit Other = "Extend" field-value ; See section 4.2 of [RFC2616] Clients may include Timeout headers in their LOCK requests. However, the server is not required to honor or even consider these requests. Clients MUST NOT submit a Timeout request header with any method other than a LOCK method. A Timeout request header MUST contain at least one TimeType and may contain multiple TimeType entries. The purpose of listing multiple Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 28]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 TimeType entries is to indicate multiple different values and value types that are acceptable to the client. The client lists the TimeType entries in order of preference. Timeout response values MUST use a Second value, Infinite, or a TimeType the client has indicated familiarity with. The server may assume a client is familiar with any TimeType submitted in a Timeout header. The "Second" TimeType specifies the number of seconds that will elapse between granting of the lock at the server, and the automatic removal of the lock. The timeout value for TimeType "Second" MUST NOT be greater than 2^32-1. If the timeout expires then the lock may be lost. Specifically, if the server wishes to harvest the lock upon time-out, the server SHOULD act as if an UNLOCK method was executed by the server on the resource using the lock token of the timed-out lock, performed with its override authority. Thus logs should be updated with the disposition of the lock, notifications should be sent, etc., just as they would be for an UNLOCK request. Servers are advised to pay close attention to the values submitted by clients, as they will be indicative of the type of activity the client intends to perform. For example, an applet running in a browser may need to lock a resource, but because of the instability of the environment within which the applet is running, the applet may be turned off without warning. As a result, the applet is likely to ask for a relatively small timeout value so that if the applet dies, the lock can be quickly harvested. However, a document management system is likely to ask for an extremely long timeout because its user may be planning on going off-line. A client MUST NOT assume that just because the time-out has expired the lock has been lost. B.6 XML Element Definitions B.6.1 lockinfo XML Element Name: lockinfo Namespace: DAV: Purpose: The lockinfo XML element is used with a LOCK method to specify the type of lock the client wishes to have created. Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 29]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 <!ELEMENT lockinfo (lockscope, locktype, owner?) > Appendix C. GULP *Copied from *<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2004JanMar/0001.html> . C.1 Directly vs Indirectly A lock either directly or indirectly locks a resource. C.2 Creating Locks A LOCK request with a non-empty body creates a new lock, and the resource identified by the request-URL is directly locked by that lock. The "lock-root" of the new lock is the request-URL. If at the time of the request, the request-URL is not mapped to a resource, a new resource with no content MUST be created by the request. C.3 Lock Inheritance If a collection is directly locked by a depth:infinity lock, all members of that collection (other than the collection itself) are indirectly locked by that lock. In particular, if an internal member resource is added to a collection that is locked by a depth:infinity lock, and if the resource is not locked by that lock, then the resource becomes indirectly locked by that lock. Conversely, if a resource is indirectly locked with a depth:infinity lock, and if the result of deleting an internal member URI is that the resource is no longer a member of the collection that is directly locked by that lock, then the resource is no longer locked by that lock. C.4 Removing Locks An UNLOCK request deletes the lock with the specified lock token. The request-URL of the request MUST identify the resource that is directly locked by that lock. After a lock is deleted, no resource is locked by that lock. C.5 Submitting Lock Tokens A lock token is "submitted" in a request when it appears in an "If" request header. Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 30]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 C.6 Locked State If a request would modify the content for a locked resource, a dead property of a locked resource, a live property that is defined to be lockable for a locked resource, or an internal member URI of a locked collection, the request MUST fail unless the lock-token for that lock is submitted in the request. An internal member URI of a collection is considered to be modified if it is added, removed, or identifies a different resource. C.7 URL protection If a request causes a directly locked resource to no longer be mapped to the lock-root of that lock, then the request MUST fail unless the lock-token for that lock is submitted in the request. If the request succeeds, then that lock MUST have been deleted by that request. C.8 Exclusive vs Shared If a request would cause a resource to be locked by two different exclusive locks, the request MUST fail. Appendix D. 'opaquelocktoken' URI Scheme The opaquelocktoken URI scheme is designed to be unique across all resources for all time. Due to this uniqueness quality, a client may submit an opaque lock token in an If header on a resource other than the one that returned it. All resources MUST recognize the opaquelocktoken scheme and, at minimum, recognize that the lock token does not refer to an outstanding lock on the resource. In order to guarantee uniqueness across all resources for all time the opaquelocktoken requires the use of the Universal Unique Identifier (UUID) mechanism, as described in [ISO-11578]. Opaquelocktoken generators, however, have a choice of how they create these tokens. They can either generate a new UUID for every lock token they create or they can create a single UUID and then add extension characters. If the second method is selected then the program generating the extensions MUST guarantee that the same extension will never be used twice with the associated UUID. OpaqueLockToken-URI = "opaquelocktoken:" UUID [Extension] ; The UUID production is the string representation of a UUID, as defined in [ISO-11578]. Note that white space (LWS) is not allowed between elements of this production. Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 31]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 Extension = path ; path is defined in [RFC2396], section 3.3. D.1 Node Field Generation Without the IEEE 802 Address UUIDs, as defined in [ISO-11578], contain a "node" field that contains one of the IEEE 802 addresses for the server machine. As noted in Section 9.1, there are several security risks associated with exposing a machine's IEEE 802 address. This section provides an alternate mechanism for generating the "node" field of a UUID which does not employ an IEEE 802 address. WebDAV servers MAY use this algorithm for creating the node field when generating UUIDs. The text in this section is originally from an Internet-Draft by Paul Leach and Rich Salz, who are noted here to properly attribute their work. The ideal solution is to obtain a 47 bit cryptographic quality random number, and use it as the low 47 bits of the node ID, with the most significant bit of the first octet of the node ID set to 1. This bit is the unicast/multicast bit, which will never be set in IEEE 802 addresses obtained from network cards; hence, there can never be a conflict between UUIDs generated by machines with and without network cards. If a system does not have a primitive to generate cryptographic quality random numbers, then in most systems there are usually a fairly large number of sources of randomness available from which one can be generated. Such sources are system specific, but often include: o the percent of memory in use o the size of main memory in bytes o the amount of free main memory in bytes o the size of the paging or swap file in bytes o free bytes of paging or swap file o the total size of user virtual address space in bytes o the total available user address space bytes o the size of boot disk drive in bytes o the free disk space on boot drive in bytes o the current time Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 32]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 o the amount of time since the system booted o the individual sizes of files in various system directories o the creation, last read, and modification times of files in various system directories o the utilization factors of various system resources (heap, etc.) o current mouse cursor position o current caret position o current number of running processes, threads o handles or IDs of the desktop window and the active window o the value of stack pointer of the caller o the process and thread ID of caller o various processor architecture specific performance counters (instructions executed, cache misses, TLB misses) (Note that it is precisely the above kinds of sources of randomness that are used to seed cryptographic quality random number generators on systems without special hardware for their construction.) In addition, items such as the computer's name and the name of the operating system, while not strictly speaking random, will help differentiate the results from those obtained by other systems. The exact algorithm to generate a node ID using these data is system specific, because both the data available and the functions to obtain them are often very system specific. However, assuming that one can concatenate all the values from the randomness sources into a buffer, and that a cryptographic hash function such as MD5 is available, then any 6 bytes of the MD5 hash of the buffer, with the multicast bit (the high bit of the first byte) set will be an appropriately random node ID. Other hash functions, such as SHA-1, can also be used. The only requirement is that the result be suitably random in the sense that the outputs from a set uniformly distributed inputs are themselves uniformly distributed, and that a single bit change in the input can be expected to cause half of the output bits to change. Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 33]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 Appendix E. Change Log (to be removed by RFC Editor before publication) E.1 Since draft-reschke-webdav-locking-00 Add and resolve issue "rfc2606-compliance". Resolve issues "extract-locking", "updated-rfc2068", "022_COPY_OVERWRITE_LOCK_NULL", "025_LOCK_REFRESH_BY_METHODS", "037_DEEP_LOCK_ERROR_STATUS", "039_MISSING_LOCK_TOKEN", "040_LOCK_ISSUES_01", "040_LOCK_ISSUES_02", "040_LOCK_ISSUES_05", "043_NULL_LOCK_SLASH_URL", "065_UNLOCK_WHAT_URL", "077_LOCK_NULL_STATUS_CREATION", "080_DEFER_LOCK_NULL_RESOURCES_IN_SPEC", "089_FINDING_THE_ROOT_OF_A_DEPTH_LOCK", "101_LOCKDISCOVERY_FORMAT_FOR_MULTIPLE_SHARED_LOCKS", "109_HOW_TO_FIND_THE_ROOT_OF_A_LOCK" and "111_MULTIPLE_TOKENS_PER_LOCK". Add issue "import-gulp". Start work on moving text from RFC2518 excerpts into new sections. Define new compliance class "locking" (similar to "bis" in RFC2518bis, but only relevant to locking). Reformatted "GULP" into separate subsections for easier reference. Appendix F. Resolved issues (to be removed by RFC Editor before publication) Issues that were either rejected or resolved in this version of this document. F.1 extract-locking Type: change julian.reschke@greenbytes.de (2004-04-14): Locking extracted from RFC2518. Resolution (2004-05-21): Finished as of draft 00. F.2 updated-rfc2068 Type: change julian.reschke@greenbytes.de (2004-04-25): Update references of RFC2068 to either RFC2396 or RFC2616. Resolution (2004-05-21): Done. F.3 040_LOCK_ISSUES_07 Type: change Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 34]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1999AprJun/0246.html> ccjason@us.ibm.com (1999-06-07): 9.4 If header - BNF suggests that IF's content must be all tagged or all untagged. - doesn't say if there can be two If headers in a request. Might we want a tagged one and an untagged one? - I must be misunderstanding this, but it sounds to me like that state of a resource(s) must match one of the locktokens listed in the request. But what if some of the resources are locked and others are not. The unlocked resources definitely won't contain state that's listed. Are we precluding operations on regions that might not be entirely locked? -- Is this a valid observation or a red herring? 9.4.1.1 If header - untagged example - See my comment about regions that are not entirely locked. 9.4.2 If header -tagged state - So if we've applied a lock with depth.... and now we're doing a DELETE on a subtree of that tree and we've tagged the locktoken we've submitted, will this prevent that locktoken from apply'ing to ALL the resources of the subtree... and thus prevent the COPY from succeeding? Or are we supposed to tag the lock token with the root of the LOCK even if that is not part of what we are deleting? Or should the request use untagged locktokens? 9.4.3 If header - NOT operator - Why do we want this? of course... why not? :-) Overall, the If header seems backwards for locktokens. It's client driven rather than server semantics driven. The only feature it seems to provide is perhaps the ability for the client to request that the request be aborted if the resource no longer is locked. Other than that it seems to complicate the simple process of letting the server know what tokens you hold. I'd think we'd just want a different header to declare what lock tokens we hold and let the server (not the client) decide how they affect the success of the request. Resolution: This issue needs to be handled in the base protocol. F.4 rfc2606-compliance Type: editor julian.reschke@greenbytes.de (2004-05-23): Ensure that examples use only sample domains as per RFC2606. Resolution (2004-05-24): Done. F.5 073_LOCKDISCOVERY_ON_UNLOCKED_RESOURCE Type: change <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2001JanMar/0128.html> Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 35]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 hwarncke@Adobe.COM (): If the DAV:lockdiscovery property is requested from an unlocked resource, what is the correct response? Apache mod_dav responds with an empty mod_dav sends an empty lockdiscovery element (<D:lockdiscovery/>) while IIS sends an empty prop element (<D:prop/>), that is, it sends no lockdiscovery element at all. julian.reschke@greenbytes.de (2004-04-25): The difference shouldn't matter for clients, and they need to expect both. In general, servers that DO support locks on that resource should return an empty element. Resolution (2004-05-30): Added example. F.6 040_LOCK_ISSUES_02 Type: change <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1999AprJun/0246.html> ccjason@us.ibm.com (1999-06-07): Section 6.3: "... However resource are free to return any URI scheme so long as it meets the uniqueness requirements." This is technically correct, but it might also be useful to say that the scheme should make the URI be readily recognizable as a *LOCK* state token in the event that other types of state tokens exist. I mention this because we seem to have created the possibility of other types of state tokens. -- Your call. :-) julian.reschke@greenbytes.de (2004-04-24): Disagreement: any URI scheme can be used as a lock token. Specifications that define other types of state tokens will have to take care of distinguishing them inside an "If" header. Resolution (2004-05-22): No change. F.7 040_LOCK_ISSUES_01 Type: change <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1999AprJun/0246.html> ccjason@us.ibm.com (1999-06-07): Section 6.3: ""Having a lock token provides no special access rights..." I suggest that the phrase "owned by another party" be added in this first sentence to distinguish between owning and having. It speaks of "having" in this Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 36]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 sentence but not subsequently. In fact "submitting" might be an even better word than having. Resolution (2004-05-24): Agreed, use "submitting". F.8 022_COPY_OVERWRITE_LOCK_NULL Type: change <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1998OctDec/0244.html> jdavis@parc.xerox.com (1998-11-29): If URL Ub is locked, creating a lock-null resource, then if a COPY is performed listing Ub as the destination, COPY will remove the lock-null resource, removing the lock, then perform the copy. A note needs to be added stating that the delete performed by the Overwrite header is atomic with the rest of the operation. Resolution (2004-05-22): See 080_DEFER_LOCK_NULL_RESOURCES_IN_SPEC F.9 043_NULL_LOCK_SLASH_URL Type: change <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1999JulSep/0039.html> wiggs@xythos.com (1999-07-23): If a URL ending in a slash is null locked, is it legal to do a PUT to it? That is, does the URL ending in slash set the resource type to a collection, or does the first PUT/MKCOL set the resource to a ordinary, or collection resource. Resolution (2004-05-22): See 080_DEFER_LOCK_NULL_RESOURCES_IN_SPEC F.10 077_LOCK_NULL_STATUS_CREATION Type: change <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2001AprJun/0267.html> lisa@xythos.com (): What status code should be returned when a lock null resource is created - 200 OK or 201 Created? A related issue is what status code should be returned by a PUT or MKCOL on a lock-null resource? MKCOL is defined to be 201, PUT could be 200 or 201 (201 seems like a slightly better choice). Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 37]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 Resolution (2004-05-22): Resolved via the proposal to remove LNR and replace them with ordinary resources and by the following wording: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2001JulSep/0129.html. See 080_DEFER_LOCK_NULL_RESOURCES_IN_SPEC F.11 080_DEFER_LOCK_NULL_RESOURCES_IN_SPEC Type: change (): Proposal to remove lock null resources from the spec until we are motivated to have them or something equivalent. In the meantime, keep the spec silent on the topic in order to avoid precluding LNR or the equivalent in a future version of WebDAV. Resolution (2004-05-25): LNRs removed. See discussions preceding conclusion: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2001JulSep/0128.html and http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2001JulSep/0107.html. Closes 022_COPY_OVERWRITE_LOCK_NULL, 043_NULL_LOCK_SLASH_URL, 077_LOCK_NULL_STATUS_CREATION. F.12 040_LOCK_ISSUES_05 Type: change <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1999AprJun/0246.html> ccjason@us.ibm.com (1999-06-07): 7.7 Write Locks and COPY/MOVE It says that a lock doesn't move with a moved resource. Of course if the lock is on the resource, not the URI, it should move with the resource. But then we have the caveat that we are also protecting the LOCK'd URI. I think the rule should be that if we submit the locktoken with the MOVE request, we are allowed to have the LOCK move with the resource and the lock will now protect a different URI. Also, ALL locks in the subtree must be submitted or the MOVE must fail because otherwise it would break our URI protection rule. Resolution (2004-05-30): No change: LOCKs are lost then the locked resource is moved. Will also be clearer once GULP is incorporated. F.13 037_DEEP_LOCK_ERROR_STATUS Type: change <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1999AprJun/0196.html> Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 38]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 wiggs@wiggenout.com (1999-05-18): Section 8.10.4 states that if a lock cannot be granted to all resources in a hierarchy, a 409 status response must be issued. Yet, the example in section 8.10.10 which demonstrates this uses a 207. julian.reschke@greenbytes.de (2004-04-24): Comment: 207 is correct, fix the bad spec text. Resolution (2004-05-22): Done. F.14 039_MISSING_LOCK_TOKEN Type: change <http://dav.lyra.org/pipermail/dav-dev/1999-June/000277.html> (1999-06-15): Keith Wannamaker: Section 8.10.1 explicitly states that the response from a successful lock request MUST include the Lock-Token header, yet the examples in 8.10.8, 8.10.9, and 8.10.10 aren't compliant with this requirement, and should be updated. Resolution (2004-05-21): Make obvious editing changes to the examples: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2001JulSep/0229.html Note that this only applies to the example for a successful lock creation, not for refreshes. F.15 065_UNLOCK_WHAT_URL Type: change <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2001JanMar/0086.html> Juergen.Pill@softwareag.com (): What do you return if the unlock request specifies a URL on which the lock does not reside? What if it's on a URL that is locked by the lock, but it's not the resource where the lock is rooted? (): Resolution (as of May 31, 2004) from RFC2518 issues list: Resolved that you can specify any URL locked by the lock you want to unlock. (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2002JulSep/0027.html) We should resolve the issue of UNLOCK'ing other URLs in a few days. Resolution (2004-05-31): RFC2518bis-05 and GULP 5.6 agree that the resource identified by the request URL must be directly locked. Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 39]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 F.16 025_LOCK_REFRESH_BY_METHODS Type: change (): Jim Amsden: The specification requires a lock to be refreshed if any method is executed, by anybody, on a locked resource. This can cause some performance problems. More importantly, the semantics of this refresh do not seem to be right -- why should a random GET by a third party cause all locks to be refreshed? Resolution: We should remove the mention of this behavior in 2518: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2001JulSep/0137.html F.17 089_FINDING_THE_ROOT_OF_A_DEPTH_LOCK Type: change <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2002JanMar/0047.html> gclemm@rational.com (): It would be good if a client could look at a locked resource that it was planning to unlock and also find out if it's depth locked and where the depth lock is rooted. Resolution: Proposed solution: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2002JulSep/0049.html approved. See also 109_HOW_TO_FIND_THE_ROOT_OF_A_LOCK F.18 109_HOW_TO_FIND_THE_ROOT_OF_A_LOCK Type: change <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2002JulSep/0049.html> julian.reschke@greenbytes.de (): If one finds a locked resource, it might be one of several resource locked by a depth lock. How does one determine the root of the lock? Resolution: Resolved to support a dav:lockroot element in the lock discovery property: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2002JulSep/0053.html See 089_FINDING_THE_ROOT_OF_A_DEPTH_LOCK F.19 111_MULTIPLE_TOKENS_PER_LOCK Type: change Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 40]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2002JulSep/0050.html> julian.reschke@greenbytes.de (): 12.1.2 states that a dav:locktoken tag can have multiple <dav:href> tags in it. Is this right? And is it trying to suggest that a single (shared) lock might have multiple locktokens? Resolution (2004-05-21): It is resolved that section 12.1.2 was incorrect and that only a single lock token URI should be allowed there. Also it is resolved that a lock only has a single lock token. F.20 101_LOCKDISCOVERY_FORMAT_FOR_MULTIPLE_SHARED_LOCKS Type: edit <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2002JanMar/0215.html> julian.reschke@greenbytes.de (): There is some confusion on how a PROPFIND response should express the fact that a resource has multiple shared locks on it. It was suggested that the spec become clearer. Resolution (2004-05-22): Resolved trivially that it's probably worthwhile to demonstrate a correct response for this situation in one of the examples. Appendix G. Open issues (to be removed by RFC Editor prior to publication) G.1 import-rfc3253-stuff Type: change julian.reschke@greenbytes.de (2004-04-25): Import error marshalling and terminology from RFC3253. G.2 import-gulp Type: change julian.reschke@greenbytes.de (2004-05-25): Make specification text compatible with GULP where it isn't. Integrate GULP as normative specification of the locking behaviour. Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 41]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 G.3 edit Type: edit julian.reschke@greenbytes.de (2004-05-25): Umbrella issue for editorial fixes/enhancements. G.4 008_URI_URL Type: change <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1998OctDec/0142.html> masinter@parc.xerox.com (1998-11-09): Perform a thorough review of the specification to ensure that URI and URL are used correctly, and consistently throughout. Resolution: Seems to have been deferred: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2002AprJun/0216.html, but there is some follow on discussion on what exactly needs to be clarified: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2002JulSep/0068.html, but no specific action was concluded besides the fact that we don't need to wait for RFC2396 to be updated or request any changes/ clarifications to that. G.5 040_LOCK_ISSUES_06 Type: change <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1999AprJun/0246.html> ccjason@us.ibm.com (1999-06-07): Upon cursory reading of the rfc 2518 sec 8.10.4 through 8.11 I was confused by the plethoria of error codes. Nothing seems to unify them. 8.10.4 speaks of a return code of 409 Conflict if a lock can't be granted. - Firstly, I can't tell if it is saying that the 409 is within the multistatus body... or in the response header. - Secondly, later text seems to use a different status codes and never mentions this one again. 8.10.7 lists status codes - 200 OK, 412 Precondition Failed, and 423 Locked are listed, but 409 Conflict (mentioned above) is not. - In the case of 412 Precondition Failed, the description the follows doesn't seem to describe a "precondition failed". And it sounds like it's talking about an access request that includes a "locktoken", not a LOCK request that generates one. - The 423 Locked condition also sort of sounds like it's talking about an access request rather than a LOCK Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 42]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 request. 8.10.10 lists LOCK status codes - 207 Multistatus which was not mentioned above - 403 Forbidden which was not mentioned above. - 424 Failed dependency which was not mentioned above. 8.11 UNLOCK - we don't mention what the failure response should look like. - comment: 200 OK seems like a better response than 204 No Content. The brief explanation isn't persuasive and seems to say that the response code should serve the purpose of the Content-Length. header. - we should probably explicitly say if an UNLOCK can only be done on the original resource... and will fail even if the resource specified is locked by virtue of being a child of the original resource. Or is this too obvious? I know it's something easy to goof up in an implementation. G.6 044_REPORT_OTHER_RESOURCE_LOCKED Type: change <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1999JulSep/0039.html> wiggs@xythos.com (1999-07-23): In some cases, such as when the parent collection of a resource is locked, a 423 (Locked) status code is returned even though the resource identified by the Request-URI is not locked. This can be confusing, since it is not possible for a client to easily discover which resource is causing the locked status code to be returned. An improved status report would indicate the resource causing the lock message. julian.reschke@greenbytes.de (2004-04-25): Proposal to define a specific precondition element plus specific child elements similar to RFC3744, section 7.1.1. G.7 052_LOCK_BODY_SHOULD_BE_MUST Type: change <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1999OctDec/0224.html> gstein@lyra.org (1999-11-23): Section 8.10.1 states that a LOCK method request SHOULD have an XML request body. This SHOULD should instead be MUST. julian.reschke@greenbytes.de (2004-04-25): Clarify that for creating LOCKs, it MUST have a request body which SHOULD have the DAV:owner element. For LOCK refreshes, no body is required. Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 43]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 G.8 054_IF_AND_AUTH Type: change <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2000JanMar/0211.html> geoffrey.clemm@rational.com (2000-01-27): The fact that use of authentication credentials with submission of lock tokens is required should be strengthened in the document. julian.reschke@greenbytes.de (2004-05-02): Submitting the lock token in an If header (usages != UNLOCK) SHOULD be restricted to whatever the server thinks the "owner" of the lock is. G.9 056_DEPTH_LOCK_AND_IF Type: change <http://dav.lyra.org/pipermail/dav-dev/2000-March/000830.html> joe@orton.demon.co.uk (2000-03-04): The specification is currently silent on how to use the If header for submitting a locktoken when performing a DELETE in a Depth infinity locked collection. Should the If header have both the collection URL and the Request-URI, or just the Request-URI? An example of this is needed. julian.reschke@greenbytes.de (2004-04-25): Clarify as part of integrating GULP. May need to test interop with existing implementations. G.10 057_LOCK_SEMANTICS Type: change (): At present, the WebDAV specification is not excruciatingly explicit that writing to a locked resource requires the combination of the lock token, plus an authentication principal. At one point, the spec. discusses an "authorized" principal, but "authorized" is never explicitly defined. julian.reschke@greenbytes.de (2004-05-02): Submitting the lock token in an If header (usages != UNLOCK) SHOULD be restricted to whatever the server thinks the "owner" of the lock is. G.11 063_LOCKS_SHOULD_THEY_USE_AN_IF_HEADER_TO_VERIFY Type: change Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 44]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 jrd3@alum.mit.edu (): Is the complexity of the IF header appropriate for the simple task o verifying that a client knowingly owns a lock? The IF header seems to serve a different purpose. One of those purposes is for the server to verify that you have the lock token (and that you know the root of it?). Another is for the client to check some preconditions before doing an action. Another seems to be to specify what lock to refresh in a lock refresh request. This seems to create ambiguity in our definition of the semantics of the IF: header. ccjason@us.ibm.com (): It is felt by the group that it's important that the client not just own and hold the lock token, but that it also know where the lock is rooted before it does tasks related to that lock. This still leaves the lock referesh issue unresolved. julian.reschke@greenbytes.de (2004-04-25): Need Lock-Token header to indicate the lock to be refreshed. G.12 066_MUST_AN_IF_HEADER_CHECK_THE_ROOT_OF_URL Type: change (): Right now the server uses the IF: header to verify that a client knows what locks it has that are affected by an operation before it allows the operation. Must the client provide the root URL of a lock, any URL for a pertainent loc, or some specific URL in the IF: header. ccjason@us.ibm.com (): It is felt by the group that it's important that the client not just own and hold the lock token, but that it also know where the lock is rooted before it does tasks related to that lock. This is just a point of info. The issue itself still needs to be brought up and answered.still G.13 067_UNLOCK_NEEDS_IF_HEADER Type: change <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2001JanMar/0099.html> dbrotsky@Adobe.COM (): Shouldn't we be using an IF header to do an UNLOCK seeing as you need to prove you are holding a lock before you can remove it? (This might be contingent on 063_LOCKS_SHOULD_THEY_USE_AN_IF_HEADER_TO_VERIFY) Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 45]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 G.14 068_UNLOCK_WITHOUT_GOOD_TOKEN Type: change <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2001JanMar/0099.html> dbrotsky@Adobe.COM (): What should UNLOCK return if a bad token is provided or no token. (This might be contingent on UNLOCK_NEEDS_IF_HEADER.) G.15 070_LOCK_RENEWAL_SHOULD_NOT_USE_IF_HEADER Type: change <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2001JanMar/0109.html> dbrotsky@Adobe.COM (): The LOCK renewal request should not us an IF header to specify what lock is being renewed. This limits the use of the IF header. julian.reschke@greenbytes.de (2004-04-25): Need Lock-Token header to indicate the lock to be refreshed. G.16 072_LOCK_URL_WITH_NO_PARENT_COLLECTION Type: change <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2001JanMar/0134.html> dbrotsky@Adobe.COM (): If a LOCK request is submitted to a URL that doesn't have a parent collection, what should be the correct response? Other methods, PUT, MKCOL, COPY, MOVE all require a 409 response in this case. Seems like LOCK should have this requirement as well. Resolution: Resolved that since LNRs no longer exist (see NULL_RESOURCE_CLARIFY) the server should return 409. We should insure that the new text we add to replace LNRs does not create an ambiguity: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2002JanMar/0164.html G.17 079_UNLOCK_BY_NON_LOCK_OWNER Type: change Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 46]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 lisa@xythos.com (): At present, the specification is not explicit about who might be capable of grabbing a lock token via lock discovery and the submitting it in UNLOCK (and/or for a subsequent write operation). It is OK for the resource owner to grab the lock token and do UNLOCK/write? Is it OK to have a "grab lock token" privilege that can be assigned to anyone? Resolution: Resolved in part by putting it under ACL control: http:// lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2002JanMar/0002.html and the response that follows it. G.18 088_DAVOWNER_FIELD_IS_CLIENT_CONTROLED Type: change (): The DAV:owner field of a lock is controlled by the locking client and should not be manipulated by the server. This is the only place the client can store info. The roundtrip details should match what we resolve for the PROP_ROUNDTRIP issue. Examples should also be checked. Resolution: Resolved by repeated statement and no disagreement. G.19 099_COPYMOVE_LOCKED_STATUS_CODE_CLARIFICATION Type: change <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2002AprJun/0079.html> ccjason@us.ibm.com (): What resource should be flagged in the multistatus response to locking issues in COPY/MOVE requests? Resolution: Resolved to flag the locking errors at the source resource that was affected by the problem. The details of how to describe the error was deferred to a subsequent version of WebDAV. - 6/15/02 - 2518bis does not reflect this. G.20 100_COPYMOVE_LOCKED_STATUS_DESCRIPTION Type: change <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2002AprJun/0079.html> (): The method of describing the details of (beyond what resolved by COPYMOVE_LOCKED_STATUS_CODE_CLARIFICATION) of the underlying cause of various locking and ACL COPY/MOVE problems is deferred. Two Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 47]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 proposals were outlined in the discussion, but interest was not great and we clearly don't have interoperability to take these proposals forward. G.21 040_LOCK_ISSUES_08 Type: change <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1999AprJun/0246.html> ccjason@us.ibm.com (1999-06-07): Shared locks... read locks... Our justifcation for shared locks ("Shared locks are included because....") seems faulty. It's not a mechansim for dealing with programs that forget to release their locks. That remains a problem with shared locks. In this case they'd forget to release a shared lock and block exclusive lock users. Timeouts and administrative action are the solutions to this problem... not shared locks. BTW, I'd think that the use of exclusive locks is just fine. I do have a problem with shared locks though... or at least shared write locks. Although they were relatively easy to define, I see them as solving a red herring problem of multiple entites cooperatively writing using distinct locks. I say it's a red herring because they don't know each other well enough to use the same lock but they do know each other well enough to not step on each other. This seems unlikely. As does the managing a compatibility matrix and getting all the entities to abide by it. OTOH I see another more common problem that is being overlooked. I see a class of folks whose purpose is to not actually write to a (set of) resource(s), but to simply prevent others from writing to it while they are looking at it. Shared write locks do not necessarily do that because with a shared write lock. someone else could grab a shared lock and go ahead and write. The only way to block that is to get an exclusive write lock. But doing that prevents anyone else from doing what you're doing despite it being pretty benign. An expedient solution is to say that a shared write lock should not necessarily give one the right to modify a resource. All it should do is prevent others from writing. And then the purpose of an exclusive write lock is just to insure that others can't get a lock and block you from writing. Now is this the right solution? Probably not. There probably should be something called a read lock that actually prevents writes as a side effect.... and would tend to get used in shared mode. Anyway, as it is, I think the shared write locks are a red herring and we're missing something we are more likely to need... shared read locks. julian.reschke@greenbytes.de (2004-04-24): Agreement that the rational for shared locks either needs to be rewritten or deleted. However shared locks are a fact, and we shouldn't change the Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 48]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 semantics given in RFC2518. G.22 040_LOCK_ISSUES_03 Type: change <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1999AprJun/0246.html> ccjason@us.ibm.com (1999-06-07): Section 7.1 Write lock. I believe this definition of a write lock is not right... or not complete... judging from what I read elsewhere. I believe one can do these operations without a write lock... as long as someone else doesn't have a write lock on the resources effected. I also believe it doesn't prevent LOCK requests in the case of shared locks. julian.reschke@greenbytes.de (2004-04-24): Clarify as part of rewriting the general semantics. The point about shared locks is correct, though. G.23 040_LOCK_ISSUES_04 Type: change <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1999AprJun/0246.html> ccjason@us.ibm.com (1999-06-07): Section 7.5 Write Locks and Collections. It says that if members are locked in a conflicting manner, then their collection can't be locked. That seems ambiguously safe to say, but I suspect that text should mention depth since if the parent lock request is depth 0, I don't think we let the members lock state effect the success of the LOCK request. The possible exception is what we said about protecting a URI that was used to perform a lock (of a member of the collection). I'm not sure what we'd like to say for that. In the advanced collection meetings we refered to these being "protected" and avoided speaking about "lock"ing the URI. This creates an odd situation though. julian.reschke@greenbytes.de (2004-05-24): Clarify that this only applies to the attempt to depth-infinity lock the collection. G.24 053_LOCK_INHERITANCE Type: change <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1999OctDec/0250.html> Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 49]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 jrd3@alum.mit.edu (1999-11-26): Section 7.5 states, "If a lock owner causes the URI of a resource to be added as an internal member URI of a locked collection then the new resource MUST be automatically added to the lock." However, though this is the intent, the specification does not explicitly state that this behavior only applies to depth infinity locked collections. The words "Depth infinity" should be added before the word "locked" in this sentence. julian.reschke@greenbytes.de (2004-04-25): Clarify as part of integrating GULP. G.25 060_LOCK_REFRESH_BODY Type: change <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2000JulSep/0039.html> rickard.falk@excosoft.se (2000-07-11): Section 7.8 of RFC 2518 indicates that clients may submit a lock refresh without a body. However, it implies that clients could submit a lock refresh with a body. Server implementations have been disallowing a lock refresh with a body. It might make sense to codify this practice, and disallow submission of a body on a lock refresh. julian.reschke@greenbytes.de (2004-04-25): Clarify that LOCK refresh MUST NOT have a request body. Also clarify Lock-Token header vs If header. G.26 015_MOVE_SECTION_6.4.1_TO_APPX Type: change <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1998OctDec/0234.html> mda@discerning.com (1998-11-24): The discussion of generating UUID node fields without using the IEEE 802 address in section 6.4.1 can be moved to an appendix. julian.reschke@greenbytes.de (2004-04-31): Plan: get rid of the section altogether and refer to draft-mealling-uuid-urn. In the meantime, move the whole opaquelocktoken discussion into an appendix. Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 50]
Internet-Draft WebDAV URL constraints May 2004 Index 4 423 Locked (status code) 9 D DAV header compliance class '2' 9 compliance class 'locking' 9 DAV:lockdiscovery property 6 DAV:supportedlock property 8 H Headers Lock-Token 28 Timeout 28 L LOCK method 20 Lock-Token header 28 lockinfo XML element 29 M Methods LOCK 20 UNLOCK 27 O opaquelocktoken (URI scheme) 31 P Properties DAV:lockdiscovery 6 DAV:supportedlock 8 S Status Codes 423 Locked 9 T Timeout header 28 U UNLOCK method 27 URI schemes opaquelocktoken 31 Reschke Expires November 29, 2004 [Page 51]
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