On 11/30/20 12:25 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
But if what you actually need to do is browse files to pick out the ones
you want, vanilla HTTP doesn't provide what a tool needs to reliably do
that.
It does not?
No, it does not. Vanilla HTTP doesn't have a way of listing what files are available or what their characteristics are. WebDAV PROPFIND can do that, not vanilla HTTP. The content you get back may have links to some files but you can't reliably distinguish from links that are files in a collection like RFCs or I-Ds, and links that are pointers to other things. Sure, you can make a tool that tries to screen scrape whatever it gets back and make some sense of it, but there's no reason to believe that such a tool will be reliable or continue to be reliable.
