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A web-based resource migration protocol using WebDAV

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Steven FurnellAuthors Info & Claims

WWW '02: Proceedings of the 11th international conference on World Wide Web

Pages 263 - 271

https://doi.org/10.1145/511446.511481

Published: 07 May 2002 Publication History

Abstract

The web's hyperlinks are notoriously brittle, and break whenever a resource migrates. One solution to this problem is a transparent resource migration mechanism, which separates a resource's location from its identity, and helps provide referential integrity. However, although several such mechanisms have been designed, they have not been widely adopted, due largely to a lack of compliance with current web standards. In addition, these mechanisms must be updated manually whenever a resource migrates, limiting their effectiveness for large web sites. Recently, however, new web protocols such as WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) have emerged, which extend the HTTP protocol and provide a new level of control over web resources. In this paper, we show how we have used these protocols in the design of a new Resource Migration Protocol (RMP), which enables transparent resource migration across standard web servers. The RMP works with a new resource migration mechanism we have developed called the Resource Locator Service (RLS), and is fully backwards compatible with the web's architecture, enabling all web servers and all web content to be involved in the migration process. We describe the protocol and the new RLS in full, together with a prototype implementation and demonstration applications that we have developed. The paper concludes by presenting performance data taken from the prototype that show how the RLS will scale well beyond the size of today's web.

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Laux FLaiho M(2009)SQL Access Patterns for Optimistic Concurrency ControlProceedings of the 2009 Computation World: Future Computing, Service Computation, Cognitive, Adaptive, Content, Patterns10.1109/ComputationWorld.2009.63(254-258)Online publication date: 15-Nov-2009
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Evans MFurnell S(2003)A model for monitoring and migrating Web resourcesCampus-Wide Information Systems10.1108/1065074031046776320:2(67-74)Online publication date: 1-May-2003
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