[Zope] WebDAV with Office 2000

[Martijn Pieters]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Harris [mailto:phil.harris@zope.co.uk]
> 
> Looks to me as if you uploaded a frontpage web into zope.
> 
> However Zope (an possibly Python) treats names with an 
> underscore in the
> first character specially.
> 
> You will need to delete the _vti* stuff before browsing 
> through WebDAV.
> 

Erm, no Phil. This is WebFolders _trying_ to find out if the Zope server
supports Frontpage extensions. 

> |>-----Original Message-----
> |>From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On 
> Behalf Of Bjorn
> |>
> |>Has anyone managed to browse a Zope site through WebDAV 
> (Web Folders)
> |>from Office 2000?  I get this error:
> |>
> |>        Zope has encountered a problem publishing your object.
> |>        Object name begins with an underscore at:
> |>                http://webdav.zope.org:2518/_vti_bin

The _vti_bin directory (vti == Vermeer Technologies Inc., the company
acquired by M$ that originally build FrontPage) is a special CGI like
directory  containing the scripts that handle communications on the
server side).

I can't recall the exact order of events, but it does mean that
WebFolders could not detect a WebDAV server. Is there a proxy or a
firewall in between you machine and the Zope server? Or is the Zope
server placed behind another web server (like Apache, IIS, or
something). Then it is very likely that the OPTIONS request is filtered
out before it reaches Zope.

In the case of a proxy or firewall: Get it to pass your requests
untouched, or bypass them completely.

In the case of Apache: There is a patch to tell Apache to pass all types
of requests to CGI apps, a similar change was made to FastCGI.

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