On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 06:33:23PM -0400, Graham Heyes wrote:
Hello, I have been using Zope to set up a new web site for documentation and maintainance os a large software project. Until now I have been using a combination of LocalFS and ftp to edit content. Neither method is perfect especially since I often work from my laptop at home which is on the wrong side of the firewall and can't get ftp to work. Just the other day I discovered WebDav and life looks much better. I can tunnel my connection to port 8080 through ssh and manage my Zope site from home. One problem remains:
When I use "get" or "edit" to get a DTML method (web page in my case) from the site I get a page with all the DTML tags expanded. This is clearly useless to me since I don't want to edit the rendered DTML but the original code. Am I doing something wrong (I hope so) if so what should I do?
I am using Zope 1.whatever but also tried Zope2. I am running on RedHat Linux 6.1 with Apache web server but I point the WebDAV tools at http://localhost:8080/ i.e. the ZServer. I have tried the "cadaver" command line tool and "DAVExplorer" java application with the same result.
This is because according to the WebDAV spec, documents are retrieved using a plain 'GET' command, which is exactly the same as what browsers do. However, the spec also provides for a way to find out where to get the source of the document found at a specific URL, via the so-called Source Link. Zope provides this link, but I have yet to find a client that'll honour it and give you easy access to it. The relevant sections in the WebDAV spec are: http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/rfc/rfc2518.html#sec-5.4 and http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/rfc/rfc2518.html#sec-13.1 Now, I haven't seen either WebDAV client, if they support this feature, please let us know! -- Martijn Pieters | Software Engineer mailto:mj@digicool.com | Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com/ | Creators of Zope http://www.zope.org/ | The Open Source Web Application Server ---------------------------------------------