Received: by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) id RAA19731; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 17:46:40 -0700 Received: from umr.edu by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id RAA19722; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 17:46:36 -0700 Received: from [131.151.253.127] (dialup-pkr-8-2.network.umr.edu [131.151.253.122]) via SMTP by hermes.cc.umr.edu (8.7.5/R.4.16) id TAA07334; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 19:46:31 -0500 (CDT) X-Sender: nneul@pop3.umr.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 19:46:00 -0500 To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com From: Nathan Neulinger Subject: Re: Thoughts on authoring support... Sender: owner-new-httpd@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com > a) check that PUT is allowed for the requester (possibly authenticated) > on the requested URL, and also any limits like max-size or type; > > b) check that the storage subsystem is PUT-writable by the webserver > for that area of storage. Also needs to be able to have some sort of capability for authenticating for access to the filesystem itself. As in when the destination of the PUT is a directory in a AFS or DFS filesystem/server. -- Nathan ------------------------------------------------------------ Nathan Neulinger Univ. of Missouri - Rolla EMail: nneul@umr.edu Computing Services WWW: http://www.umr.edu/~nneul SysAdmin: rollanet.org