[Zope] WebDAV lockingproblem with Word - any volunteers ?

Wed, 7 Nov 2001 11:44:36 -0500

M$ applications request several non-WebDAV compliant
properties like 'isreadonly' from the WebDAV server. Maybe
M$ applications expect other return values instead of
a WebDAV compliant answer.

To approach this problem it could help to intercept the
WebDAV traffic between Word and M$ server application that
supports WebDAV. Are there any volunteers trying to solve
this problem ?

Andreas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Jung" <andreas@zope.com>
To: "Joachim Schmitz" <js@aixtraware.de>; "Joachim Werner"
<joe@iuveno-net.de>
Cc: "zope-list" <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 09:55
Subject: Re: [Zope] WebDAV lockingproblem with Word

The problem with M$ application and Zope is somewhat weird and
Word is lying when it reports a file to be read-only.

As an example I mounted a Zope instance as webfolder and edited
an existing HTML file. The logs show that Word locks the file,
requests its contents and then release the lock. When I try to
save the file it sends a 'PROPFIND /' and receives all
informations about all files but no lock informations (because
Word did not request lock information in the PROPFIND request).
For some dumb-dumb-dumb reasons, Word concludes that the file
is read-only (the Zope WevDAVLock manager shows that are no locks).

Andreas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joachim Schmitz" <js@aixtraware.de>
To: "Joachim Werner" <joe@iuveno-net.de>
Cc: "Andreas Jung" <andreas@andreas-jung.com>; "zope-list" <zope@zope.org=
>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 08:21
Subject: Re: [Zope] WebDAV lockingproblem with Word

On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Joachim Werner wrote:

> "I could open and read a worddocument in a WebDAV-folder, but not a
> htm-document. After writing a new htm-document, during which I had to
> authorize again, I could read also the older htm-documents. Perhaps tha=
t
> gives some hints."
>
> That's the point: As soon as Word has to authenticate, it seems to star=
t
> sending the authentication info. Before that, it seems to retrieve the
files
> as anonymous user, which of course means that it has no rights to set t=
he
> locks etc.
>

I don't think so, cause it works with doc-files even without authenticati=
on.

> Joachim
>
>

Mit freundlichen Gr=FC=DFen

Joachim Schmitz

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