Dreamweaver - ANYTHING!- and SSL (Was RE: [Zope] Cut the Dreamweaver bashing ;-))

Paul Browning paul.browning@bristol.ac.uk
Sun, 03 Mar 2002 11:06:08 -0000


--On 03 March 2002 03:07 -0500 Joel Burton <joel@joelburton.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Paul Browning wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> --On 03 March 2002 06:24 +0000 Paul Browning
>> <paul.browning@bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> > In trying to understand the DW problem I tried making DW's local folder
>> > a Webdrive mounted Zope folder. As far as I can see DW insists on
>> > creating a .TMP file (to hold the edits of any original object) which
>> > then gets renamed on being saved - but then you loose the original ZPT
>> > object metatype.
>>
>> Hmmm - WebDrive's verbose logging is helpful.
>>
>> It gets worse. Before any of the create, rename, delete shenanigans DW
>> tries to create a folder called "_notes" - distinctly non-Zope friendly.
>
> I forget the exact feature name, but in Define Sites in DW, there is an
> option to turn of collaborative notes. This will stop the "_notes"
> directory.

Thanks, Joel. That sorted the _notes problem (BTW You find this option
via Define Sites -> Design Notes -> Maintain Design Notes).

Here's chapter and verse from the WebDrive log of what DW actually does
when you innocently commit some edits:

03/03/02 10:48:25 [X:] Download /zpt_test/webdrive/ssl.pt
03/03/02 10:49:09 [X:] Upload /zpt_test/webdrive/MFC20.tmp
03/03/02 10:49:09 [X:] Upload /zpt_test/webdrive/MFC20.tmp
03/03/02 10:49:09 [X:] Set modified time for /zpt_test/webdrive/MFC20.tmp
03/03/02 10:49:09 [X:] 3/3/2002 10:49:09
03/03/02 10:49:09 [X:] Delete /zpt_test/webdrive/ssl.pt
03/03/02 10:49:10 [X:] Rename /zpt_test/webdrive/MFC20.tmp to 
/zpt_test/webdrive/ssl.pt

So I guess if the PUT_factory gets modified to make anything uploaded with 
the
extension .tmp to be of metatype 'Page Template' then Dreamweaver becomes
a dream over SSL ....... patches gratefully accepted.

BTW someone else has reported the SSL issue on the Macromedia site:
<http://webforums.macromedia.com/dreamweaver/messageview.cfm?catid=189&thre
adid=260197&highlight_key=y&keyword1=Dreamweaver%20WebDAV%20with%20SSL%20>

That was a month ago - no reply from Macromedia, sigh.

Paul

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