- From: Tim Ellison <Tim_Ellison@uk.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 10:36:34 +0100
- To: WebDAV <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Alan Kent <ajk@mds.rmit.edu.au> wrote: > This is not really a WebDAV question, but more of a > question of integrating WebDAV nicely with Web > browsers (such as MSIE). > > I think the answer is no, but is there any way to tell > Microsoft Internet Explorer (or Netscape for that > matter I guess) that a URL in a <A HREF="..."> or > similar is in a DAV folder, so it should use the > application to natively load the document. > > For example, if I have a Word document in a DAV web > folder, and I have a web page with a <A HREF="..."> > pointing to the document, then if the user clicks on > the link, IE will download the file, put it into a > temporary directory, then start up Word on the > downloaded file. So Word does not talk to the WebDAV > repository. I would rather give Word the URL and say > 'hey, you load it yourself'. That way Word can save > the changes directly back to the Web DAV folder. > > My best solution so far is to put on the web page a > URL to a document that contains the URL of the DAV > resource to be edited, give the first URL a file > extension of .xyz, get the user to associate a small > program to the .xyz file extension which starts up > Word with the second URL on the command line. > > Any other brilliant ways of doing this without having > to reconfigure the user's web browser first? For an IE-specific solution you can use the FOLDER attribute of an href. The description is given here http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/behaviors/overview/WebFolder.asp As far as I am aware there is no equivalent in Netscape. Regards, Tim Ellison Java Technology Centre, MP146 IBM UK Laboratory, Hursley Park, Winchester, UK. SO21 2JN tel: +44 (0)1962 819872 internal: 249872 MOBx: 270452
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