[ZPT] Page Templates in WebDAV arrive as rendered HTML

[Richard Jones]

On Friday 24 August 2001 03:46, Lynn Walton wrote:
> > From: Evan Simpson <evan@zope.com>
> > Subject: Re: [ZPT] Page Templates in WebDAV arrive as rendered HTML
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Evan @ Zope
>
> So, does this make dreamweaver worthless using WebDAV or is there some way
> people are using it with ZPT successfully?

That's what we've found. We the builtin FTP client in Dreamweaver. Works a 
treat.


    Richard