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

[Ludovic Dubost]

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



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