Alright, looks like there was some kind of negative interaction between 1.9.100 and the previous version that existed on my computer. I removed that version and the current one, then reinstalled 1.9.100 and everything seems to work fine.
thanks for your time,
Matthew
Hello again,
Ok, I've got DAV working on my server and I still notice an odd difference in behavior between Writer 1.1.4 and 1.9.100. With 1.1.4 both encoded ASCII text files and .sxw files are opened read/write; 1.9.100 opens encoded ASCII text files read/write but .sxw files as readonly. That is, if I open any given file with 1.1.4 it responds with certain behavior and the /same/ file with 1.9.100 the other behavior. This has /got/ to indicate something and narrow something down. At least, I hope it gives a developer some clue to figure this out.
thanks in advance for the help,
Matthew
Mathias Bauer wrote:
Matthew L. Avizinis wrote:
Mathias Bauer wrote:
Much thanks for the suggestion. No I hadn't considered it, but now that you've mentioned it, I've discussed it with the network guy that maintains our Apache server and that capability should be simple to install and activate. It appears to be a superior approach to accomplish what I'm trying to do anyhow.BTW; did you consider using WebDAV instead of ftp? It's much more reliable especially in this regards and maybe in future OOo will support more advanced features of this protocol.
What features does OOo currently support of DAV (or what OOo/SDK doc page can you point to, if available)?
Currently OOo supports only basic features, not more than for ftp. You can open the folders in the file dialog, you can create, open and save files. Access to files and folders can be password protected or not. Locking is currently not supported.
One advantage over ftp is that WebDAV folder access also works through a proxy, while the usual ftp-over-http-proxy does allow only file access, not folder access. I assume this isn't interesting for your environment, but I wanted to mention it.
I nevertheless recommend WebDAV instead of ftp because it is the better technologie on server side and we might add more features in further versions of OOo.
Best regards, Mathias
