Thanx for an informative response!
Btw I tried WebDAV vs. www.zope.org and that site refused the connection attempt. Is there some obvious setting that I can use to disable WebDAV, since I don't need it (as far as I know;)
DAV won't work for zope.org because it runs behind apache and we've never done the incantation apache requires to let cgi-ish processes handle their own DAV requests. As far as disabling DAV support, there's no real way to do that (except for running behind apache or another server that interferes with DAV requests by default). This really shouldn't be a problem - the extended HTTP methods that provide DAV support all basically have Zope api corollaries, so the DAV methods are protected by the analogous permissions. For example: PROPFIND -> manage properties PROPPATCH -> manage properties DELETE -> delete objects MKCOL -> Add folders ...and so on. GET, POST and PUT are used by DAV exactly as in the HTTP spec, so if you can "download" something via DAV then you could also have gotten it with your normal non-DAV aware browser. Hope this helps! Brian Lloyd brian@digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com