Collection Synchronization for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)
RFC 6578
| Document | Type |
RFC - Proposed Standard
(March 2012; No errata)
Was draft-daboo-webdav-sync (individual in app area)
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| Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) C. Daboo
Request for Comments: 6578 Apple Inc.
Category: Standards Track A. Quillaud
ISSN: 2070-1721 Oracle
March 2012
Collection Synchronization
for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)
Abstract
This specification defines an extension to Web Distributed Authoring
and Versioning (WebDAV) that allows efficient synchronization of the
contents of a WebDAV collection.
Status of This Memo
This is an Internet Standards Track document.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6578.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Conventions Used in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. WebDAV Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.1. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.2. DAV:sync-collection Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.3. Depth Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.4. Types of Changes Reported on Initial Synchronization . . . 9
3.5. Types of Changes Reported on Subsequent
Synchronizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.5.1. Changed Member . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.5.2. Removed Member . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.6. Truncation of Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.7. Limiting Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.8. Example: Initial DAV:sync-collection Report . . . . . . . 12
3.9. Example: DAV:sync-collection Report with Token . . . . . . 14
3.10. Example: Initial DAV:sync-collection Report with
Truncation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.11. Example: Initial DAV:sync-collection Report with Limit . . 17
3.12. Example: DAV:sync-collection Report with Unsupported
Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.13. Example: DAV:sync-level Set to Infinite, Initial
DAV:sync-collection Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4. DAV:sync-token Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5. DAV:sync-token Use with If Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5.1. Example: If Precondition with PUT . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5.2. Example: If Precondition with MKCOL . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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