Hi,
It looks like it's already fixed in CVS HEAD, RawFormat is now used instead of PrettyFormat. If you have a chance, could you verify it works now.
I wasn't aware of this way of connecting from Windows, it indeed mounts or map a drive pretty much like the NetDrive/WebDrive tools do. Somebody was asking about this recently, and NetDrive was the only suggestion. Microsoft says that it works like the SMB/CIFS redirector. However, I read reports that it is very buggy: doesn't like IP address, only port 80 supported, this issue with spaces in the XML. I tested it but I couldn't get authentication to work. But it works when you set Slide without authentication. Are you using authentication? If so, anything special about getting it to work.
Carlos
Jie Ren wrote:
Hi All,
I was trying to mount Slide as a drive on Windows XP, using the
command "net use * http://mymachine/slide";. I always get an "invalid
directory name" error.
Since I can use the same "net use" command against IIS/WebDAV and
Apache/mod_dav, I did some reverse engineering and figured out where the
problem is. The redirector (mrxdav.sys, invoked through davclnt.dll when
using "net use"), parses the XML response in its own way. It does not like
the white space, carriage return, etc. that is returned by Slide. The fix is to use a different JDOM Format (CompactFormat instead of
PrettyFormat) in PropFind output. Changing these lines (starting from line
284 of PropFindMethod.java)
// Create multistatus object
Element multistatusElement = new Element(E_MULTISTATUS, DNSP);
org.jdom.output.Format format = org.jdom.output.Format.getPrettyFormat();
format.setIndent(XML_RESPONSE_INDENT);
XMLOutputter xmlOutputter = new XMLOutputter(format);
To
// Create multistatus object
Element multistatusElement = new Element(E_MULTISTATUS, DNSP);
org.jdom.output.Format format = org.jdom.output.Format.getPrettyFormat();
format.setIndent(XML_RESPONSE_INDENT);
//======== Begin Change ==============
// Microsoft Windows XP WebDAV redirector (MRXDAV.SYS) does not like pretty
format
String userAgent = req.getHeader("User-Agent");
if (userAgent != null &&
userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("microsoft-webdav-miniredir") != -1)
format = org.jdom.output.Format.getCompactFormat();
//======== End Change ================
XMLOutputter xmlOutputter = new XMLOutputter(format);
Will solve the problem. The Microsoft WebFolder (MSDAIPP.DLL) does not have this problem. It can open current Slide successfully. Can any committer further investigate this and decide whether the change should be included in the next release?
Best Regards, Jie Ren
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