30 Jul
2008
30 Jul
'08
5:36 p.m.
Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
I haven't tried NetDrive on Vista though. However I just validated XWiki
on Vista and on the WebDAV redirector on Windows.
The constraint is about some registry change to allow Basic
Authentication (unless we want to support Digest Auth).
The second constraint is that the web server needs to reply with webdav
on the root URL and for XP the Webdav folder needs to be in a sub filter
I find it very nice to build a webdav client that requires your app to
respond with webdav at the root BUT that does not accept your webdav to
actually be at the root..
I think we can handle these constraints and provide installations
requirements to the Windows XP and Vista users so that the redirector
works natively.
The support in VISTA is actually better than in XP. Double clicking
inside Webfolders directly works when in XP you absuletely need to have
mapped a drive letter.
Concerning interoperability we need now to focus on the following issues:
- verify interoperability with standard MSOffice (98, 2003) clients on
Windows XP and Vista
- how to have webdav integrated properly in XWiki and respond on a
WebDAV OPTIONS request at the root of the web server (we could provide a
special webapp for that).
- implement MOVE which is necessary for some application and is usefull
for renaming directory and files
- handle file starting with . or ~ as temporary files in memory (just
for that user and IP) otherwise we'll have crappy files in our wiki
- how to handle bad characters in some file names (we can just change
the file name because some application are actually looking at the file
they just saved and won't like it if they don't find it). We could
refuse bad file names but we need to not be to selective.
- nice to have: implement Digest Auth so that we can avoid updating the
registry on Windows clients
I think we should start having our plugin app in Jira and have these as
independent bug..
I let you handle this with Vincent.
Ludovic
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With Microsoft
WebDAV redirector (same one available on Vista)
- Nothing works at all. I've tried almost all I could to try to use it to
map a network drive on the webdav folder.. The constraints are pretty hard
on the web dav server and even though I was not able to have it fully
working. I find it a dead end.
On Windows Vista:
- Nothing works at all
It seems possible to install a Web Folders package on Vista and have the
behavior of XP.
In any case, the Microsoft solution is sub-optimal on Windows. Novell
NetDrive (free download findable on the web) or WebDrive (it's commercial
counterpart) seem to be much more efficient.
Maybe MSOffice works correctly with WebFolders but this needs to be tested.
So, should we not worry about native vista support ? (I think so, since
NetDrive would do the trick)
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Ludovic Dubost
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XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com
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