[Zope] WedDAV: WriteLocks with MS-Office

Robert Rottermann robert@redcor.ch
Tue, 30 Apr 2002 11:57:33 +0200


I just found an other issue with WebDAV.
When one copies a locked object in Zope then the lock is also copied.
And nobody will ever release it.

Robert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Jung" <andreas@zope.com>
To: "Thomas Guettler" <zopestoller@thomas-guettler.de>; <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] WedDAV: WriteLocks with MS-Office


> wahhh..yet another new wierd behaviour of MS Office. From the
> Zope site the behaviour looks fine because there are no locks.
> We solved this problem for Office 2K by adding an ETag: header
> but it seems that the behaviour for Office 2002 is different
> again. Maybe try to contact M$ support. But I assume they
> will laugh at you when you mention Zope ;-(
>
> Andreas
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas Guettler" <zopestoller@thomas-guettler.de>
> To: <zope@zope.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 11:31
> Subject: [Zope] WedDAV: WriteLocks with MS-Office
>
>
> > MSWord seems to forget to release a webdav lock.
> > The documents get locked but not released again.
> >
> > I read that this should have been fixed, but it
> > seems that it has not been fixed.
> >
> > The Lock-Manager of the ZMI says: "No locked objects
> > where found"
> >
> > The Undo-Tab looks like this:
> >
> >    /a/documents/9/Features2.doc/UNLOCK by guettler  2002-04-29 05:54:25
PM
> >    /a/documents/9/Features2.doc/LOCK by guettler  2002-04-29 05:54:25 PM
> >    /a/documents/9/Features2.doc/UNLOCK by guettler  2002-04-29 05:38:08
PM
> >    /a/documents/9/Features2.doc/LOCK by guettler  2002-04-29 05:38:08 PM
> >    /a/documents/9/Features2.doc/UNLOCK by guettler  2002-04-29 05:37:05
PM
> >    /a/documents/9/Features2.doc/LOCK by guettler  2002-04-29 05:37:03 PM
> >    /a/documents/9/Features2.doc/UNLOCK by guettler  2002-04-29 05:36:54
PM
> >    /a/documents/9/Features2.doc/PUT by guettler
> >
> >
> > The last actions is an unlock, thus it should not be write-protected.
> >
> > Is there a work-around?
> >
> > Versions:
> > -Zope2.5b2
> > -MSWord 2002
> >
> >   thomas
> >
> >
> >
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