[Zope] WebDAV Locks - MS Office 2000

[Andreas Jung]

The locking problem was more related to the absence of the ETAG
header that Office 2K expects.

Andreas
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dieter Maurer" <dieter@handshake.de>
To: <chrisw@nipltd.com>
Cc: <zope@zope.org>; <joe@iuveno-net.de>; <jason.earl@simplot.com>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 07:46
Subject: [Zope] WebDAV Locks - MS Office 2000


> Hi Chris,
> 
> last month, you reported problems with Office 2000 and Zope.
> We now run into apparently the same problem.
> 
> I also found Werner's excellent analysis of your problem.
> 
>     I was puzzled by the strange, surely non-standard,
>     "Ms-Author-Via: DAV" header in the "OPTIONS" output.
>     The source documentation suggests it is
>     "an borg-specific header for ie5".
> 
>     I am (almost) convinced that this header is responsible for
>     Office 2000 trying to open the documents via WebDAV.
> 
> I will remove this header (set in "webdav.Resource.OPTIONS") in
> our installation because we do not use Office 2000 for authoring
> Zope content. Maybe, this is an option for you, too.
> 
> 
> Dieter
> 
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