Re: Seiwald Q & A -- "GET for EDIT" cookies
Daniel W. Connolly (connolly@w3.org)
Fri, 30 Aug 1996 21:39:21 -0400
In message <199608310041.RAA23761@spice.perforce.com>, Christopher Seiwald writ
es:
>
>Clearly the URL is not sufficient: multiple users can be working on the
>same document.
>
>URL+username might be better, but I can easily imagine a case where the
>same named user (or the same user) is working on a single document from
>two different places.
>
>URL+username+hostname? Maybe.
This is what Derived-From: and Version: are all about: in
response to a GET (for edit), the server emits Version: ... .
In the corresponding PUT, the client includes Derived-From: ... .
See Dave Long's draft for details.
Dan