No, the server can t tell whether client wanted reference fixed up or not. If there is a relative URL within a hierarchy, if you copy the hierarchy, the relative URL will still work. You don t want to do any fix-up in this case. Send this message to the WebDAV mailing list by the end of this week. We ll allow a week for mailing list discussion, then make a decision.
New resource is same type as original.
Relative URIs in reftarget. Whatever we choose, let it be the same for direct and redirect. Geoff s proposal is return 302 on redirect, copy target for direct. Geoff could live with either, Jim D also, Judy also. If we decide to copy the target, say explicitly in the spec that the result will be a resource of the same type as the target, not a reference.