[KLUG Members] Re: WebDAV Support Pretty Good

[Bryan J. Smith]

Quoting Bob Kanaley <rvk@agdia.com>:
> By using WebDAV, access to files by Win98 clients could be
> regulated and logged. The other goal was to establish a
> location where my windbloz clients could publish their Outlook 2000
> calendars and free/busy times to share across the LAN.

Unfortunately, some of these open interfaces take away from sales of proprietary
Microsoft server products.  So, again, don't expect good support.

> The drag and drop or copy and paste, create files and folders from
> winbloz explorer to the apache webdav server via Web Folders worked
> great. And if they have the permissions on the web server,
> thewinbloz clients can simply double-click on a file in a mapped
> Web Folder to open the file for editing
> (I'm surprised this didn't work in linux).

Again, it's a difference in desktop "security-by-default" attitude.  Frankly,
forcing users to copy something and set the "execute bit" before they execute is
a "nag" in most people's eyes whereas I find it a "bonus."

The other issue of Microsoft software blindly continuing to believe file
extensions and MIME types are actual without testing "file magic" while, quite
contrastingly, the Windows execution unit blindly executes any file with the
"MZ/executable file magic" is what causes 99.9% of Windows desktop worms.

> But, for some reason the Outlook 2000 "Save as webpage" would initiate
> a "publish to the web" dialog whenever I would select the WebDAV Web
> Folder as the destination location.
> Unfortunately, the "publish to web" wizard in Outlook 2000 does not
> understand WebDAV well enough to save the data to the WebDAV server. I
> even tried setting up an NT box with apache with WebDAV enabled and front
> page extensions on to try to get this working. Same problem as on Linux,
> i.e. the problem is with the M$ "publish to web" wizard, not WebDAV.

Again, my first point at the beginning of this Email.  While file access is one
thing, free/busy and web publishing is an area where Microsoft products like
Exchange and .NET are direct competitors.

Both MSIE and Outlook "feature lists" are two of the _biggest_falsehoods_ in the
technical world.  Don't get me started.  ;->

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