Re: Recognizing a WebDAV enabled client

Manfred Baedke wrote:
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> Hi Michael,
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>> Also the server might want to deliver a different response, e.g. if 
>> the GET request is being issued from a regular Web-Browser,
>> then the server might respond with a common (X)HTML, but if the GET 
>> request is being issued from Cadaver or OpenOffice then
>> the server might respond with an ODT file.
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> What about the Accept header?

makes sense, whereas I need to check what OpenOffice for instance is 
actually sending, but see my other usecase re
custom authentication.
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>> because the server might be able to handle different versions of 
>> WebDAV. I think this makes sense
>> for backward and forward compatibility reasons.
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> Are there any specific incompatibility issues you are aware of ?
no, but I could imagine there will be if there will be more than one 
version of WebDAV and so I think it should
me mandatory for clients to send the DAV header.

Cheers

Michi
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> Regards,
> Manfred
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