[glue-wg] New Endpoint and Service types

[stephen.burke at stfc.ac.uk]

Paul Millar [mailto:paul.millar at desy.de] said:
> I think you misunderstood: I don't want to publish that webdav is based
> on http.
> 
> I want that:
>    o  we publish one StorageEndpoint object.
>    o  someone searching for HTTP endpoints will find that object.
>    o  someone searching for WebDAV endpoints will find that object.

Part of the question is whether (and how) you expect users to know that webdav is a specialisation of http rather than a standalone protocol. I.e. your scheme, in whatever format it gets published, would mean that someone wanting webdav would do a basic search for an InterfaceName of http plus a subfilter on some other attribute to restrict the search to only http endpoints that support webdav. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with that, but it requires users who want webdav to know that they have to do that, rather than just a standard search for webdav as an InterfaceName. Also if the users are using a service discovery tool, e.g. ginfo, whatever method is used would need to be supported and not overly complex.

Stephen

(More replies after I get some coffee ...)

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