[Zope-dev] CookieCrumbler and WebDAV

[Lennart Regebro]

Casey Duncan wrote:
> CookieCrumbler is expressly designed for interactive login with a
> human through a web browser. It steps out of the way for WebDAV
> because it is not appropriate to subvert the normal HTTP
> authentication mechanism in that case. WebDAV clients cannot display
> the HTML login form that CookieCrumber returns. Actually in some
> cases (like MS Office) they can display the form and they mistakenly
> think that is the document the user requested 8^(

Yeah, that makes sense.

I'm not 100% sure that the problem is cookies anymore, however, but this 
still helped to clear things up, thanks.