[ZPT] Page Templates in WebDAV arrive as rendered HTML

Lynn Walton waltonl@franklin.edu
Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:46:02 -0500


> From: Evan Simpson <evan@zope.com>
> Subject: Re: [ZPT] Page Templates in WebDAV arrive as rendered HTML
>
> Also, there's an issue to beware of when using a "make WebDAV server
> look like a mapped drive" products such as WebDrive and WebIFS.  Since
> web page editors think that they are editing a local file, they will
> often perform operations that work well with a filesystem but screw up
> an object database.  For instance, when Dreamweaver saves changes, it
> will create a temporary file, rename the original file, rename the
> temporary file into place, then delete the original file.  This destroys
> all properties, history, and security settings of the page.
>
> Evan @ Zope
>

So, does this make dreamweaver worthless using WebDAV or is there some way people are using it
with ZPT successfully?

Lynn