[Zope3-dev] Re: Does WebDAV work on X3 Beta1?

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Tres,
>> Joachim Werner wrote:
>>
>>>> If yes, do I have to configure a WebDAV port? How?
>>
>>
>> No. Zope2 needed this crazy thing of a WebDAV port because it couldn't 
>> tell browser and dav requests apart. Zope3 identifies a WebDAV request 
>> and uses different views than for browser request...
> 
> Remind me how Zope3 expects to distinguish between a "normal" GET and a 
> WebDAV GET?

Well, in Zope3 a DAV request is synonymous to an HTTP request. All DAV 
views are views of type HTTP. Whether an incoming HTTP request is pure 
HTTP (incl. DAV), XMLRPC or a browser request is decided in 
HTTPPublicationRequestFactory 
(Zope3/src/zope/app/publication/httpfactory.py)

So, uh, it seems GET always defaults to BrowserRequest... Hmmmm.

> BTW, it isn't Zope2's fault that WebDAV overloads GET, and that although 
> the spec mandated a way do signal the "source" form, none of the clients 
> (then or now) followed the spec.

A new song with the same old recurrent theme... Pity.

Philipp