Zope / IE5 interoperability report + nits

Hi all,

FYI, Zope appears to work well with IE5 (web folders), and
handles GET, HEAD, PUT, PROPFIND, DELETE, MKCOL, COPY, MOVE
requests as expected. It apparently doesnt deal with custom
properties. If you want to try out IE5 against Zope, you can 
open a "web folder" (read only) at:

http://webdav.zope.org/users/public


A few observations / nits:

  o I agree with Greg that IE5 Web Folders seem a bit slow...

  o IE5 sends a rather curious looking propfind request:

    <?xml version="1.0" ?>
    <propfind xmlns="DAV:">
    <prop>
    <name/>
    <parentname/>
    <href/>
    <ishidden/>
    <iscollection/>
    <isreadonly/>
    <getcontenttype/>
    <contentclass/>
    <getcontentlanguage/>
    <creationdate/>
    <lastaccessed/>
    <getlastmodified/>
    <getcontentlength/>
    <resourcetype/>
    <isstructureddocument/>
    <defaultdocument/>
    <displayname/>
    <isroot/>
    </prop>
    </propfind>

    I'm curious what these elements are:

    <name/>
    <parentname/>
    <ishidden/>
    <iscollection/>
    <isreadonly/>
    <contentclass/>
    <lastaccessed/>
    <isstructureddocument/>
    <defaultdocument/>
    <isroot/>
    
    ...I don't see them in the spec, yet IE5 is asserting them to
    be in the 'DAV:' namespace. Are these revenants of an older draft, 
    or from other works-in-progress (adv. collections, etc.)?




Brian Lloyd        brian@digicool.com
Software Engineer  540.371.6909              
Digital Creations  http://www.digicool.com

Received on Thursday, 18 March 1999 22:54:13 UTC