[Calypso] calypso with davdroid: in the direction of principals

[chrysn]

On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 08:26:47AM +0100, chrysn wrote:
> (speaking of slashes: it seems to be calypso's stance that resources'
> urls don't end in slashes. caused troubles with davdroid[2], not sure
> what to think of it).
>
> [2] https://github.com/rfc2822/davdroid/issues/64

it turned out that davdroid is justified to behave like it does. we
should serve all collections with trailing slashes, and accept requests
without:

>    There is a standing convention that when a collection is referred to
>    by its name without a trailing slash, the server MAY handle the
>    request as if the trailing slash were present.  In this case, it
>    SHOULD return a Content-Location header in the response, pointing to
>    the URL ending with the "/". [...] Wherever a server produces a URL
>    referring to a collection, the server SHOULD include the trailing
>    slash.  In general, clients SHOULD use the trailing slash form of
>    collection names. 

best regards
chrysn

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