- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:33:01 +0100
- To: Mark Phillips <mphill14@harris.com>
- CC: dasl list webdav <www-webdav-dasl@w3.org>, WebDAV <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Mark Phillips wrote: > I would be most grateful for information and/or links to articles that > describe how others have dealt with the 260 character path limit in > Windows. The product manager I work with feels we must support Windows > as a backend for the DAV enable product we are developing. Testing with > a few clients has exposed the Win32 limitation in a rather stark way. > > Thank you, in advance. > > Mark Phillips Hi Mark, it seems to be you selected a non-optimal list for this question :-) -- w3c-dist-auth@w3.org (the generic WebDAV mailing list) seems to be a better choice. That being said -- are you referring to a limit on the client or on the server? In general, Windows can deal with longer paths, you just need to use the correct API for that. If course, many Windows *applications*, such as Explorer, don't. BR, Julian
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