Hi Ludovic, On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Ludovic Dubost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Asiri Rathnayake wrote: > >> 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. > >> > >> > > > > 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 > > 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 > >> -- > >> Ludovic Dubost > >> Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/ > >> XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com > >> Skype: ldubost GTalk: ldubost > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> devs mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > >> > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > devs mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > > > > > > -- > Ludovic Dubost > Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/ > XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com > Skype: ldubost GTalk: ldubost > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
