Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) Ordered Collections Protocol
RFC 3648
| Document | Type | RFC - Proposed Standard (December 2003; No errata) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Authors | Jim Whitehead , Julian Reschke | ||
| Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
| Stream | IETF | ||
| Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized bibtex | ||
| Stream | WG state | (None) | |
| Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
| IESG | IESG state | RFC 3648 (Proposed Standard) | |
| Action Holders |
(None)
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| Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
| Telechat date | |||
| Responsible AD | Ted Hardie | ||
| IESG note | Text added to clear Allison's issue with ordering semantics | ||
| Send notices to | <lisa@xythos.com> | ||
Network Working Group J. Whitehead
Request for Comments: 3648 U.C. Santa Cruz
Category: Standards Track J. Reschke, Ed.
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December 2003
Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)
Ordered Collections Protocol
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This specification extends the Web Distributed Authoring and
Versioning (WebDAV) Protocol to support the server-side ordering of
collection members. Of particular interest are orderings that are
not based on property values, and so cannot be achieved using a
search protocol's ordering option and cannot be maintained
automatically by the server. Protocol elements are defined to let
clients specify the position in the ordering of each collection
member, as well as the semantics governing the ordering.
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RFC 3648 WebDAV Ordered Collections Protocol December 2003
Table of Contents
1. Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Overview of Ordered Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.1. Additional Collection properties . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.1.1. DAV:ordering-type (protected). . . . . . . . . . 6
5. Creating an Ordered Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.1. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.2. Example: Creating an Ordered Collection. . . . . . . . . 8
6. Setting the Position of a Collection Member. . . . . . . . . . 8
6.1. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.2. Examples: Setting the Position of a Collection Member. . 10
6.3. Examples: Renaming a member of an ordered collection . . 10
7. Changing a Collection Ordering: ORDERPATCH method. . . . . . . 11
7.1. Example: Changing a Collection Ordering. . . . . . . . . 13
7.2. Example: Failure of an ORDERPATCH Request. . . . . . . . 14
8. Listing the Members of an Ordered Collection . . . . . . . . . 16
8.1. Example: PROPFIND on an Ordered Collection . . . . . . . 17
9. Relationship to versioned collections. . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
9.1. Collection Version Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
9.1.1. Additional semantics for
DAV:version-controlled-binding-set (protected) . 20
9.1.2. DAV:ordering-type (protected). . . . . . . . . . 20
9.2. Additional CHECKIN semantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
9.3. Additional CHECKOUT Semantics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
9.4. Additional UNCHECKOUT, UPDATE, and MERGE Semantics . . . 21
10. Capability Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
10.1. Example: Using OPTIONS for the Discovery of Support for
Ordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
10.2. Example: Using Live Properties for the Discovery of
Ordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
11. Security Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
11.1. Denial of Service and DAV:ordering-type . . . . . . . . 23
12. Internationalization Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
13. IANA Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
14. Intellectual Property Statement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
15. Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
16. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
17. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
A. Extensions to the WebDAV Document Type Definition. . . . . . . 27
Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
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RFC 3648 WebDAV Ordered Collections Protocol December 2003
1. Notational Conventions
Since this document describes a set of extensions to the WebDAV
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