Hi!
The idea is that endusers can drag'n'drop files under MS-Windows, and immediately have those files -- password protected via Zope -- available on the web. This is for a design house that needs to make videos, web pages, etc. available to clients for review with HTTP.
You could also try IE's drag-n-drop ftp support.
FTP is as problematic as WebDAV if you use pre-XP versions of Windows.
I see my two options as:
1. Mount the Zope server as a WebDAV drive under MS-WindowsXP, then just drag'n'drop there
2. Use LocalFS to give Zope access to some directory, and then share that directory with Samba
I guess if you have the choice and all clients are in the same LAN, LocalFS + Samba is a good and fast solution. It just won't work as soon as you want to add users that only have Internet access. If you can use commercial products, there is WebDrive, which adds WebDAV support (as a mounted drive) for pre-XP Windows versions.
Also, with LocalFS I have the "type_map" property, which is really useful. I am *still* shocked and amazed that there is no such property for standard Zope folders--what good is WebDAV access without it?
Once you get over the shock you could try to implement it ;)
It is relatively easy to implement that. It could be the next feature for our increasingly mislabelled OrderedFolder (which already is ordered, has sub-objects, filters, optional transparency, etc.) Joachim