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V FAQ : Scope and Relationship to WebDAV : Why does Delta-V not report live properties via PROPFIND DAV:allprop?

April 26, 2017DAV delta-v live properties relationship report SCOPE v WebDAV

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V FAQ : Scope and Relationship to WebDAV : Why does Delta-V not report live properties via PROPFIND DAV:allprop?

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There are a few reasons why Delta-V specifies that servers should not report all versioning properties to a PROPFIND requaest for DAV:allprop. Some of the live properties defined in Delta-V are likely to be expensive for the server to compute. In fact, there are properties that will provide substantial queries over the versioning resources and these are very powerful. A server can be seriously impacted by serving such requests for numerous resources, such as in a Depth: infinity request. It is unlikely that clients will require all the live properteis of a versioned resource if they are versioning unaware. They will neither be able to interpret the values they are given, nor know how they can cuase the values to change. It is much more appropriate for clients to query live properties ‘intelligently’, i.e. knowing what they are asking and what they intend to do with the information.