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

[Jim Fulton]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> 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.

This is still an isue.  In many cases, we can avoid the isue by providing
separate editing and use locations, as we do for view templates.

We should probably add a separate webdav server on a separate port.

Jim


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