Just thought I'd let you all know something I've discovered and placed on
the FAQ. Slide won't work with the version of IE that ships with W2K so that
a vanilla W2K install with TC and slide fails.
I've tracked it down to the web folders DAV client that comes with IE5.0 -
it sends credentials for every request but not the HEAD method request it
issues just before a file upload. Upgrading to IE5.5 sp1 fixed it.
I checked the MS knowledgebase but couldn't identify any PR that seemed to
be the one, however it's fixed with IE5.5, so no matter. Still, it's a bit
of a trap!
To see it, install W2K out of box, add TC4b3, add a user for root in TC's
users file, drop in the slide.war, run TC (to unpack the war) then edit
slide's web.xml to allow auth. Restart TC and create a web folder. You'll be
able to create a sub-folder but not upload a file. To see why, set your TC
for logging and debugging and look in the TC log file - no credentials for
HEAD, so TC doesn't pass the HEAD through to slide at all.
Peter
