Thanks. I understand why it's not working, I was just hoping against all hopes that their might be some way into 'tricking' IE and/or Windows into passing an URL to the Office product instead of saving the file locally and then passing the local file name. There are so many situations when this kind of behavior would be desirable.
Eric Mike Oliver schrieb: > When you open it with IE you are NOT using WebDAV, you > are just doing an > HTTP get of the file, no different really than from any > other HTTP > server. To use WebDAV you need to open it from a Web > Folder > (Technically you could do it from the File->Open in > Word....but I digress). > > To do that you go to your "Network Places", then "Add New > Network Place" > and put in the URL you were using to the Slide folder > where your > document is. > > After you authenticate you will be able to use Microsoft > Office products > to open then with WebDAV and save your changes back. The > document will > be locked while you have it open and will be unlocked > when you close it. > > Ollie > > > E.A.Holmes wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >Excuse me if this question isn't 100% slide related, but > perhaps someone > >can give me some help. > > > >I'm trying to use slide and webdav to access documents > through a browser > >(specifically Internet Explorer 5 +, although I haven't > had much luck > >using Konqueror either). The problem is, is that when I > click on a link > >to retrieve an MS Office document, the correct > application is opened but > >the MS Office application is editing a temporary file > (e.g. > >/tmp/MyDoc.doc) instead of a webdav url > >(https://slide.mydomain.org/myDocs/MyDoc.doc). That > means that you can > >view and edit the document, but when you save it it is > simply saved in > >the local file system instead of being sent back to the > server. > >Ideally I would like to click on the link, edit the > document in the > >proper application and then save it directly back to the > server. > > > >Is there any way to get this to work? Perhaps by > sending some kind of > >special information in the header? Or is there some way > to configure > >Windoze to handle things differently? > > > >Thanks for any help anyone can give me, > > > >Eric > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
