[Ietf-caldav] No time-range means what?

[Cyrus Daboo]

Hi Mike,

--On May 26, 2005 9:06:41 AM -0400 Mike Douglass <douglm at rpi.edu> wrote:

> Has there been any discussion on the appropriate response when no
> time-range is specified for the possibly large requests, PROPFIND, REPORT?
>
> Returning or filtering ALL events could be a problem, especially for
> public events. Unless a range is specified, should the result be limited
> to 'active' components, i.e NOW (sort of) and onwards.
>
> Of course, NOW might be a problem so maybe yesterday would be safer

I think we should leave it as-is - i.e. no time-range (an no comp-filter 
providing other limits) means return everything. We can add a statement 
warning clients that this is not a great thing to do when the calendar is 
potentially large, but there may well be justifiable reasons for doing it. 
In some ways this is equivalent to the IMAP 'FETCH 1:*' or 'LIST "" *' 
issues where all data is requested instead of sub-ranges.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo