[Zope] External Editor on Client?

Andy McKay andy@agmweb.ca
Sat, 15 Feb 2003 08:34:59 -0800


Hi,

I've got an intranet app that uses Plone, CMFTypes and Word so that 
using the joys of External Editor people can happily edit and save Word 
docs oh so easily.

But I need to be able to tell if the client has EE on it and if it 
doesnt display a warning message that points them to the download page. 
Anyone got a cunning way of doing this?

There's nothing in the HTTP headers (on my IE and Mozilla anyway). I 
could add a sort of ping to External Editor that returned its version 
info, but that would just be a "download this file?" dialog in most 
browsers and not something useful.

Any other ideas?
-- 
   Andy McKay