[ZPT] Page Templates in WebDAV arrive as rendered HTML

[Evan Simpson]

zope@meadowbase.com wrote:
> I installed WebIFS, a Win32 WebDAV client that makes DAV
> content look like another drive in the file system. When I pull down a
> Page Template object to edit it, I get the final HTML, not the page
> template text itself.

Most (all?) WebDAV clients don't take dynamic pages into account, and 
send a simple HTTP GET to load them.  This gets you the rendered HTML. 
The z2.py start script has a "-W <port#>" argument that you can use to 
set up a WebDAV source port.  For instance, if you add "-W 9800", Zope 
will send page source in response to GET requests on port #9800.

You should only use WebDAV with a source port.

Also, there's an issue to beware of when using a "make WebDAV server 
look like a mapped drive" products such as WebDrive and WebIFS.  Since 
web page editors think that they are editing a local file, they will 
often perform operations that work well with a filesystem but screw up 
an object database.  For instance, when Dreamweaver saves changes, it 
will create a temporary file, rename the original file, rename the 
temporary file into place, then delete the original file.  This destroys 
all properties, history, and security settings of the page.

Cheers,

Evan @ Zope