[Zope-Coders] Disabling MS-Author-via=DAV

[Andreas Jung]

--On Mittwoch, 28. Mai 2003 12:08 Uhr +0100 Chris Withers 
<chrisw@nipltd.com> wrote:

> Andreas Jung wrote:
>>
>> where M$ application were *not* compliant with the specs. I have also
>> been in contact with a WebDAV guy from Microsoft support but he laughed
>> at me when I told him about the WebDAV spec violations.
>
> Exactly, it's up to us to make this work. MS are deliberately trying to
> screw with the protocol because they _know_ that office support via
> WebDAV is important to a lot of people...

Of course it is up to us to make it work but we tried this already and 
failed
at some point.

>
>> Anyway.....we were not
>> able to find out how to make Zope more compatible with M$ applications.
>
>  From what I remember, Apache works fine with this. Could code be
> borrowed from there?

You can not borrow code but we could borrow the behaviour. Maybe someone
is willing to some network sniffing with Zope/mod_dav against M$ 
applications
to figure out the differences.

>
>> I volunteer to continue supporting WebDAV for Zope 2 in the future.
>
> With the MS attitude?
>

It's not all about M$. I'll try to fix all outstanding issues with the 
litmus compatibility
suite.

-aj