> I'm trying to use the slide client API (TC 3.2.1 ,slide M8)
>
> I've got the following errors while querying the server :
>
> 1)
> WARNING - Access denied on /users by user /users/guest for action
/actions/read
> 20 Mar 2001 17:08:21 - WARNING - Access denied on /actions by user
/users/guest for action
> /actions/read
>
> The propfind request returns a 500 status error, an exception is thrown
while putting
> documents :
> org.apache.webdav.lib.WebdavException: Unable to process request
PROPFIND shouldn't return a 500. It's a request on which URI ?
> 2) ok the authentication directives in the file web.xml were commented
out.Why not.
> I restart the server with the following directives :
> tomcat-users.xml :
> <user name="john" password="john" roles="tomcat,role1,root" />
> Domain.xml : unchanged
>
> 3) The result is the same. Adding authentication directives has just allow
to display a pop
> up when accessing /slide on my server (john,john works fine) and display
the Directory
> Listing / with full slide informations
>
> 4) I noticed a difference between this two tries :
> In the second case, the server doesn't log anything in the debug
interface. Why ??
What do you mean by not log anything ? It should still log the HTTP requests
it executes.
> I'm not sure to understand exactly how slide manage users. Perhaps I could
have also a
> configuration problem.
>
> 5 ) So to resume :
> - I place the slide.war in the webapps repository
> - I configure servers.xml and mod_jk.conf to allow servlets execution in
slide repository
> - I add authentication directives in the web.xml file (3)
> - I start my server , full information are displayed and the slide
repository has been
> created.
> - I access /slide via my web browser , and I authenticate myself with
john,john
> - Ok it's work (Clicking on actions does not work !)
That is normal, since john doesn't have permission to read that.
> - Now I try to do the same with the client API :
> WebdavClient client = new WebdavClient();
> client.startSession("localhost", 8080);
> client.setCredentials("john","john");
> and then : getMethod, putMethod , propfind as describe in examples ...
>
> Why it doesn't work ?
John should be able to do a PUT in the /files collection. What kind of
PROPFIND fails ?
Remy
