Message: 48 From: "Wolfgang Strobl" <ws@gmd.de> Organization: GMD To: zope@zope.org Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 14:10:32 +0200 Subject: Re: [Zope] Win98 and WEBDAV - you ought to see it if you can

On 22 May 2000, 6:41 Paul Browning wrote:

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Question: If WEBDAV works so well under Win98 does it also work just as well under Win2K? Perhaps someone who will admit to using Win2K can confirm this? It might even motivate me to upgrade from NT .....

I'm using Win2000 at work. Opening a webdav folder works, so does renaming or moving objects around. Copying from a local folder to a remote zope works too. But the reverse direction results in a "Error Copying File or Folder: An error occured while copying the file. The requested header was not found" sometimes. Copying a different file got me "The current operation cannot be completed because an unexpected error has occured".

Thanks for the feedback on Win2K. A Bristol colleague reports: "I can't currently get it to work under Win2k (keeps prompting me for the location of webfldrs.msi) ..."

In short, it's too buggy for doing real work.

Yeah - I thought the problems had been sorted under Win98 - but I re-discovered this gotcha (which I was getting under NT4): you can copy .htm files TO Zope but not back again. And changing the file name and/or extension doesn't offer a workaround. Bit of a shame that .... Paul -- The Library, Tyndall Avenue, Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TJ, UK E-mail: paul.browning@bris.ac.uk URL: http://www.bris.ac.uk/