mark hellewell wrote at 2005-5-7 20:22 +0100:
On 5/7/05, Chris McDonough <chrism@plope.com> wrote:
Web Folders pass cookies around too, FWIW, so it's probably not strictly necessary to use http basic auth. But without using http basic auth, there is no way to log in unless you have them go to the web interface first, then launch a web folder, so maybe impractical.
That's exactly what's happening at the moment; the WebDAV access is linked to via the web interface after they log in (it's only one small part of a larger system). They log in via the web, gaining a cookie which is passed to the Explorer 'web folders' thing, so when they click on the link to the WebDAV part of the site the cookie is still valid and they don't have to log in to WebDAV. *
I think this can only work when WebDAV uses the normal HTTP port. However, Powerpoint can get severely confused when it accesses a resource via WebDAV over the HTTP port and the access requires authentication. In this case, Powerpoint uses the login page as resource content. -- Dieter