[Zope] Re: WEBDAV & FireFox

[Thomas Bennett]

Its been a while since I first tried using WebDAV but I tried it with 
Dreamweaver and MS's WEB Folder version and I can't remember if one or 
both did this.  I could download and upload the files fine except that 
downloading would download the rendered source and not the true source.  
So in that case since we use a tag like <dtml-var topbanner> on all our 
pages then editing the rendered source would eliminate that and all dtml 
tags which would make that page not update when the topbanner object gets 
changed.  It seems that I recall seeing some discussion somewhere that 
type of incident may have been client specific and some download rendered 
source and some true source.  But being http based and "REQUEST/RESPONSE" 
I can see why this might happen.  This was with :

Zope Version  (Zope 2.6.1 (binary release, python 2.1, linux2-x86), python 
2.1.3, linux2)
Python Version  2.1.3 (#1, Sep 19 2002, 13:15:46) [GCC egcs-2.91.66 
19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)]
System Platform  linux2


Thomas

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:01:06 -0600, J. Cameron Cooper 
<jccooper at jcameroncooper.com> wrote:

> Paul Browning wrote:
>
>> --On 17 March 2004 15:33 +0000 John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm still trying to work out how WEBDAV differs from an FTP
>>> filesystem  driver...
>>
>> Here's two differences:
>>
>> 1. File locking (that's the DA bit - Distributed Authoring - you
>>   don't stomp on other people's stuff).
>>
>> 2. Easily secured over SSL (no passwords in the clear)
>>
>> 3. Increasingly ftp is blocked at firewalls
>>
>> Others are likely to extend this list ....
>
> WebDAV is an extension to the HTTP protocol, and thus is 
> REQUEST/RESPONSE based unlike FTP. (This can be more efficientalso 
> allows it to be sneaky wrt firewalls.)
>
> A regular HTTP resource also maps to a WebDAV resource more directly 
> than FTP.
>
> There's more, but you're right that they basically provide the same sort 
> of service. Note that Zope treats them similarly.
>
> See also:
>
> http://webdav.org/other/faq.html
>
>           --jcc
>



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