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- Dan Connolly writes:
- > >ANNOTATE /file/to/annotate?/file/of/annotation?Text describing annotation.
- >
- > I'd suggest
- >
- > APPEND /file/to/annotate
- > <a HREF="file/of/annotation">Text describing annotation</a>
- > .
- >
- > The server could impose limits on the length of the annotation,
- > and it should somehow validate the syntax, I suppose.
-
- The point behind *not* doing general appends is that they aren't a
- good idea since document integrity is breached (a link is immediately
- obvious as just that and will cause little confusion [especially if
- clients always prepend a fullname], but if arbitrary text can be added
- to a document, you'll never know what's going on). To be practical, I
- know *I'm* not going to run an httpd server that allows anyone to
- append any text they want to my documents.
-
- And if general appends aren't going to be allowed (through server
- validation of the <A...> syntax or whatever), then why not just let
- the server construct the link append itself?
-
- Marc
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