Dieter wrote:
That is Zope specific. Other HTTP servers will not mind names beginning with '_'.
Sure, but that doesn't solve the problem :-)
Hugh, what is that "custom HTTP-based RPCs"? Never heard about this! Why does "FrontPage" not simply use "PUT"?
Are you asking "why" ? When it comes to MS, who knows ? I quote from http://www.insecure.org/sploits/Microsoft.frontpage.insecurities.html
First of all, Frontpage is braindammaged (just have to set the stage).
Ok, Frontpage works like this when you want to publish files:
It tries to GET "http://www.yourdomain.com/_vti_inf.html". This file contains the version of the FP extensions and the path on the server where the extensions are located. When you use Frontpage to upload content, it will try and fetch this file, if it can, it then tries to POST to "http://www.yourdomain.com/_vti_bin/shtml.exe/_vti_rpc" (that's the default).
(there are more, interesting enough for you to read).
Seems, it wants only work together with IIS?
IIS or any web server with frontpage extensions. Apache, Netscape & Oreilly, can be configured this way --but that's a *really* bad idea, patricularly for Apache. Dimitris @ Nuclear