[Zope] WebDAV client for MacOS (and question)

Ty Sarna tsarna@endicor.com
31 Jan 2000 22:44:32 GMT


In article <613145F79272D211914B0020AFF6401914DE1D@gandalf.digicool.com>,
Brian Lloyd  <Brian@digicool.com> wrote:
> This is a problem for all DAV servers that deal with dynamic 
> content :(  The DAV working group has been surprisingly resistant
> to widening their scope to cover dynamic content - surprising to 
> me, at least, given the growing ubiquity of .asp, php, dtml, etc. 
> 
> Apparently MS decided to stop beating their head against this and 
> came up with their own magic header that lets their (win2K/ exchange) 
> DAV server know that you want the _unprocessed_ content. I suspect 
> that in lieu of an "official" solution, this will catch on. Once 
> there are clients that know about this, I expect we will support it 
> in Zope as well.

Actually, the spec does encompass this, and Zope already supports it :^)

PROPFIND on, eg, index_html will include:

...
<d:propstat xmlns:n="DAV:">
  ...
  <n:source>
  <n:link>
  <n:src>/index_html</n:src>
  <n:dst>/index_html/document_src</n:dst>
  </n:link>
  </n:source>
  ...