[Zope-Coders] RFC: Remove funky WebDAV hackery?

[Chris Withers]

Tres Seaver wrote:
> 
> Webfolders are still broken WRT Zope, as they only allow users to edit
> content using Office (e.g., you can't open an image in Paint, or a
> document in Notepad).  I think we should:
> 
>   - Move this behavior out of ZServer (too hardwired here).
> 
>   - Add an Environment variable / Control Panel knob for enabling
>     and disabling ETag generation;  likewise the 'MS-Edit-Via' header,
>     which is Too Evil To Live (at a minimum, it *must* have an 'X-'
>     prefix to be standards conforming!)
> 
>   - If enabled, then use the code in webdav/Resource to emit the header,
>     rather than adding an empty header (any code which doesn't implement
>     the rest of the protocol shouldn't look to MSOffice like a DAV
>     resource, anyway!)

Looks good :-)

Chris