[Zope-dev] problem with using webDAV between MS Word and Zope

[Sidnei da Silva]

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On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Wayne Glover
<wglover at technicalmedia.net> wrote:
> hi all,
>
> i am using plone 3+ with zope ope-2.10.5-final
>
> I am trying to use webDAV between Word and Zope.  This works fine for OO
> (yes i know - don't use Word!  Not an option)
>
> I have searched far and wide and have found the 'solution' at
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope2/+bug/143725) however, i can't get it to
> work for me with this installation
>
> _____________________________________________________________________________________________________
>
> The changes suggested by the bug fix at the link are as follows:
>
> *** /usr/local/zope-2.8.4/lib/python/webdav/Resource.py 2006-06-13
> 16:35:29.000000000 -0500
> --- /usr/local/zope-2.8.4/lib/python/webdav/Resource.py.orig    2006-06-13
> 16:20:17.000000000 -0500
> ***************
> *** 197,203 ****
>          self.dav__init(REQUEST, RESPONSE)
>          RESPONSE.setHeader('Allow', ', '.join(self.__http_methods__))
>          RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Length', 0)
> -       RESPONSE.setHeader('MS-Author-Via', 'DAV')
>          RESPONSE.setHeader('DAV', '1,2', 1)
>          RESPONSE.setStatus(200)
>          return RESPONSE
> --- 197,202 ----
> ***************
> *** 594,606 ****
>      def manage_DAVget(self):
>          """Gets the document source"""
>          # The default implementation calls manage_FTPget
> !       # some things have manage_FTPget's that take REQUEST and RESPONSE
> !       # -- mengel 2006-06-13
> !       try:
> !           res = self.manage_FTPget()
> !         except:
> !           self.manage_FTPget({},{})
> !         return res
>
>      def listDAVObjects(self):
>          return []
> --- 593,599 ----
>      def manage_DAVget(self):
>          """Gets the document source"""
>          # The default implementation calls manage_FTPget
> !         return self.manage_FTPget()
>
>      def listDAVObjects(self):
>          return []
> _______________________________________________________________________________________________________
>
> Note that what it is doing is forcing a response of 'MS-Author-Via', 'DAV')
>
> what this is supposed to do is force Word to accept webDAV vs. it's only
> silly thing.  good in theory, but i couldn't get it to work
>
> After revising the file on the zope server, i then tried Word webDAV.  I
> monitored the network traffic to look for the OPTIONS response telling Word
> to use webDAV.  see attached txt file which has tcp stream while i tried to
> save .doc file.    Note that, in the above change, the "RESPONSE.setHeader
> ('MS-Author-Via', 'DAV') is supposed to be returned by Zope to force Word to
> work with webDAV, but this does not happen.
>
> This has been driving me crazy and any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Note:  i have attached the zope 'resource.py' as i have modified it based on
> the above link.  plz let me know if you can see what is wrong.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wayne Glover
> TechnicalMedia, Inc.
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