[Zope-dev] Zope 2 WebDAV and acquisition

[Tres Seaver]

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Shane Hathaway wrote:
> Martin Aspeli wrote:
>>> Can anyone explain why that condition is there? Otherwise, I'll rip it 
>>> out. ;-)
> 
> As I recall, this code is convoluted because it's hard to tell whether 
> an HTTP request is a WebDAV request.  If there is now a way to clearly 
> distinguish WebDAV requests, then I imagine this code can be greatly 
> simplified.  This code had to deal with Windows 95 and such.

There is no way to tell the difference between a WebDAV GET and a
"normal" browser GET, period:  the specs explicitly, deliberately
overload the GET verb.

Hence the IANA-assigned "WebDAV source port"[1] (9800) (which *we*
requested) in order to disambiguate those requests.


[1] http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers



Tres.
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