> I've been using Word 2k with WebDAV on apache web server with much
success.
> (just a few glitches)
>
> Just note, that the Word docs are XHTML (word xml). So they tend to make
> the pages a little large. This works well for documentation, though,
since
> you can read it in most browsers and edit it easily in word.
Mike, you sound like you've actually done some of this. I've actually had
the "opposite problem" doing file downloads. Actually, I return a web page
with an A HREF pointing to a JSP that will retrieve a word.doc file and
return it. I've found that some IE browsers appear to have been DAV-ified
since they are unable to download the file because they are trying to do
something funkier than just a simple HTTP GET. This has happened with .RTF
word docs, too.
This is waht I see in the web logs:
[21/Sep/2000:06:44:02 -0700] 202.156.109.213 \(Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE
5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)\)
https://www.myeastside.com/mail/RMD.jsp?m=44&i=2&c=U%21T%7C%5BL%245%4035Q8%2
4y2 -> /mail/GA.jsp/business+plan+2000-09.rtf
[21/Sep/2000:06:44:09 -0700] 202.156.109.213 \(Microsoft Data Access
Internet Publishing Provider Cache Manager\) - -> /mail/GA.jsp
[21/Sep/2000:06:44:13 -0700] 202.156.109.213 \(Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MS
FrontPage 4.0)\) - -> /_vti_inf.html
[21/Sep/2000:06:51:52 -0700] 202.156.109.213 \(MSFrontPage/4.0\) - ->
/_vti_bin/shtml.exe/_vti_rpc
[21/Sep/2000:07:04:20 -0700] 202.156.109.213 \(Microsoft Data Access
Internet Publishing Provider DAV\) - ->
/mail/GA.jsp/business+plan+2000-09.rtf
Basically the mail/RMD.jsp uses certain information to determine which file
is being requested and that the user has access, and then it redirects to
mail/GA.jsp that actually sends the document back as the response, with the
headers set to show its a word document, etc. (the same mime type the file
was uploaded with). This works fine, but there are some browsers, like the
above, that seem to be doing something very odd with DAV or the like --
something related to them having installed Frontpage perhaps.
Does anybody know how to PREVENT the browser from doing this and just use as
basic HTTP GET and not these other plug-in like crap? We may actually have
to use DAV if that's the only way to work-around the browser issue.
David
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
