[xwiki-devs] [GSOC] [WebDAV] Interoperability

Hi Asiri, I've worked a little on WebDAV interoperability and made quite some progress. We now have on Mac: - WebDAV working for browsing and downloading files - WebDAV working for drag and dropping files - WebDAV working with vi in view, edit and save (it says on save that the file was changed while editing although it's not true) - WebDAV working with a patched version of OpenOffice (with a fix for locking) or with official NeoOffice in view edit and save - WebDAV working with TextEdit in view, edit but NOT save Mac OSX generates phony attachments to store temporart files. TextEdit fails because it tries to create a file then MOVE it (it might be because of the same locking issue as OpenOffice). And on Windows XP: With Novell NetDrive (mapping webdav to a driver letter): - WebDAV allowing browsing, dowloading , drag and dropping - WebDAV working with notepad and OpenOffice in view, edit, save With Microsoft Web Folders (2 versions on SP2 tested including the latest patch from Microsoft, SP3 would need to be tested) - WebDAV allowing browsing, dowloading , drag and dropping - WebDAV allowing to double click or open from notepad or OpenOffice but by copying to a temp read only file. You then can SAVE AS to the WebDAV folder. It might be possible that MS Office allows to handle this differently. 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. On Mac the behavior is pretty nice with the patched version of OpenOffice (patch is published there: http://tools.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=81536 let's hope they put it in the standard distrib). Ludovic -- Ludovic Dubost Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost GTalk: ldubost