Supportiing hosey MS Windows/Office webdav...

[Marc Mengel]

According to:

http://www.zorched.net/2006/03/01/more-webdav-tips-tricks-and-bugs/

the MS Windows/Office webdav client code (distinct from the webdav client code
you have if you don't have Office -- doncha just LOVE Windows?) makes frequent
HTTP 1.1 OPTIONS calls and needs to see an 'MS-Author-Via: DAV' header to be happy.

Also, if you're running Plone it makes GET calls that trigger some versions of
manage_FTPget that are mapped to index_html calls that need parameters.

Thus the attached patch; It's only tested a very little so far, but Explorer
is suddenly actually showing folders on our site with apache proxying via SSL...

[Wayne Glover (wglover)]

hi, i am desperately hoping this is the solution i am looking for.

How does this apply to Zope 2.10.5-final ?

i looking at the Resource.py file for Zope 2.10.5-final (attached) i see that they have acknowledged this issue and have entered code to fix it. however, it still does not work to upload directly from Word 2003 (SP 3) to Zope.

attached is the resources.py file from zope 2.10.5-final (Note: this file HAS my best effort at incorporating the changes from here. plz see the approximate lines referenced in the patch and see the section i commented out from the original resources.py file. and see the changes i entered.

i am not a programmer so if i didn't update the file properly, i would really appreciate help.'

thanks a lot for your help

[Wayne Glover (wglover)]

i tried another configuration of the resource.py file

[Wayne Glover (wglover)]

sorry to keep posting this in pieces, but i keep trying new tests

first, the patch given here uses different terminology from the site referenced:

1) this patch: RESPONSE.setHeader('MS-Author-Via', 'DAV')

2) from the link above 'webdav tips and tricks" - MS-Author-Via: DAV

I tried both, but no luck.

so first question is which is correct?

second - when i update the file on the zope server, and analyze the IP network traffic,, this special OPTION does not get returned by Zope in the list. this must be why Office still won't use it because it doesn't know it exists.

any ideas?

[Tres Seaver (tseaver)]

Chances of getting this in are low, unless it is submitted as a patch, including unit tests.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

The zope2 project on Launchpad has been archived at the request of the Zope developers (see https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/683589 and https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/685285). If this bug is still relevant, please refile it at https://github.com/zopefoundation/zope2.