30 Jul
2008
30 Jul
'08
7:37 p.m.
Hi Ludovic,
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Ludovic Dubost <ludovic(a)xwiki.org> wrote:
Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
So, should we not worry about native vista support ? (I think so, since
NetDrive would do the trick)
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..
Yep, that would be absolutely crazy ... :D
> 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.
I think we can handle these constraints and provide installations
requirements to the Windows XP and Vista users so that the redirector
works natively.
Agreed, like we did with xeclipse, we can document everything on xwiki.org
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
Working on this right now.
About renaming files, we can't rename wiki.txt and wiki.xml, so i guess this
only applies to attachments.
Space renaming is already there and i'm working on page renaming, i've hit a
little wall with it but i will fix it by tomorrow :)
- 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
Good thinking, we can put them as session variables may be.
- 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.
Great! looking forward to it. I'll be so happy to move xwiki-webdav out of
sandbox... :P
Thanks.
- Asiri
Ludovic
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