[Design] Re: [Cosmo] Reconciling various sharing URLs

[Morgen Sagen]

On 9/19/07, Brian Moseley <bcm at osafoundation.org> wrote:
> On 9/19/07, Morgen Sagen <morgen at osafoundation.org> wrote:
>
> > However, in B) and C) Chandler doesn't know beforehand whether the
> > collection was published using one of the subscriber's accounts, or by
> > someone else; this would require additional handshaking with Cosmo to
> > get the list of published collections, etc.  Ok, I could do that, but
> > within B), there are two subcases:
> >
> > B1) ticket is read-write
> > B2) ticket is read-only
> >
> > In B2), do you want the user to end up being able to write to the
> > subscribed collection?  That might be counter-intuitive to subscribe
> > with a read-only ticket and end up with write privileges.
>
> actually, in case B i'd want you to ignore the ticket altogether and
> just use my account info to assert my identity to the server.

Is the best way to do this to have Chandler iterate all the user's
accounts for this server and ask Cosmo for the list of each account's
published collections to see if this URL matches it?  Or is there
another request Chandler could make?