[Zope-dev] WebDAV with IExplorer

[Martijn Pieters]

At 23:14 08/09/99 , Rik Hoekstra wrote:
>Today, I discovered that at least part of the problem was related to
>a known (to pythonwin users anyway) very annoying 'feature' of
>Win95/98/NT: case (in)sensitivity. For example, if you create a
>folder 'foo' within a Zope WebFolder, it is created allright.
>However, Win95 converts the first character of its filenames to
>uppercase, even if it shows them in lowercase !?!?!. So you end up
>with a foldername in your webfolder which shows as if it were lower
>case (and the http request apparently asks the server for a lower
>case folder name), but in Zope it is with a capital  first character.
>Manually changing the name of the Zope folder to all lower case will
>solve the problem. However, if you copy a tree of items (with
>folders/directories in them) the same problem occurs again -
>hampering the effective use of WebDAV.

AAarrrgggggghhh

*Sound of Martijn banging his head on the table*

Microsoft did it again. It made another completely useless implementation 
of a standard protocol.

IE5's WebDAV implementation can indeed only be used on Microsoft servers, 
because it mangles the case......

(sorry, this is so frustrating)

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