[Zope-CMF] Cookie Crumbler, Members Only CMF Site and WebDav -- solution included

[Heimo Laukkanen]

Webdav, Office, Webfolders and CMF. Guess my problem? Well. Webdav from 
office seems to work fine, even if CMF site uses cookie crumbler - as 
long as logging into the site is not required before anything else is 
shown. So whenever I have a Members only CMF Portal - so on root folder 
access contents information and view is denied from anonymous - Webdav 
starts to make problems.

If I login with MS Webfolders to Zope, I can browse the site ok - but 
creating new content creates errors and no files are created. However if 
  I test the same setup, but change the root folder to have view and 
access everything works. This was however not so nice solution, since 
the whole point of Members only Portal was to allow only members in - 
even to the front page.

I tested the same setup with Cadaver, which had no problems in either 
case. It asked me to login very politely. This lead me to think that the 
problem was just in the webfolders way of getting/asking authentication 
from the user.

Solution finally was to include the username and password explicitly in 
the webdav link in windows, example. 
http://user:password@myhost:8081/Intranet/ .

This is not the most elegant, since this means that user has to leave 
password visible in the webfolder link, but works for now. If someone 
has a better solution, I would be very delighted to hear about it.

Hope this helps somebody else too.

A couple of links:

About webdav and cookie crumbler:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/1206966

Members only portal:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/1328409

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Heimo Laukkanen
Oy Fountain Park Ltd
Hämeentie 153 B, 00560 Helsinki, Finland
tel. +358 9 777 68 161, gsm +358 40 759 1110, fax +358 9 777 68 100
http://www.fountainpark.org