Creating Referential Members

M-PUT /~whitehead/dav/ HTTP/1.1

Host: www.ics.uci.edu

Man: "DAV:Coll-headers"

Referential-Member: spec08.ref

Ref-Target: http://www.ics.uci.edu/i-d/draft-webdav-protocol-08.txt

Ref-Integrity: T

Position: After requirements.html

Content-Length: 0

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Notes:

Referential-Member and Ref-Target headers must be present when creating a referential member. Server recognizes a request to create a referential member by the presence of the Referential-Member header.

Referential-Member gives the URI of the member itself.

Ref-Target gives the URI of its target resource. Value gets stored in the DAV:reftarget property.

Ref-Integrity header is optional. If not present, server assumes F. If present with value = “T”, server must fail the request if it can’t guarantee referential integrity. Server always sets DAV:refintegrity property based on this header, or with the default value F. Also sets target resource’s DAV:refsource property when it creates a strong reference.

Content-Length header should be 0. Server should ignore any content.

Position header is optional and supports ordering -- we’ll talk about it later.