- From: Gillen, David S <david.gillen@pnl.gov>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 11:14:46 -0800
- To: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>
- Cc: www-jigsaw@w3.org
> From: Yves Lafon [mailto:ylafon@w3.org] > Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 1:28 PM > > On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Gillen, David S wrote: > > > > > Hello all, > > > > I'm new to Jigsaw and am very intrigued by its > architecture. We are > > interested in deploying it as a WebDAV server, but we can't seem to > > get the built-in Microsoft Web Folders WebDAV client to recognize > > Jigsaw as a WebDAV server. I can connect to Jigsaw with > DAVExplorer, > > so I know I have WebDAV configured and running properly > within Jigsaw, > > and I've used Web Folders to connect to other WebDAV servers (like > > mod_dav). Is there some special setting I need to change to make > > Microsoft Web Folders recognize Jigsaw? I get the generic > error that > > the folder I specified is not valid > > > > I'm running Jigsaw WebDav 2.1.2 as the server on my Windows PC, and > > also running Windows XP as the WebDAV client. > > Ah it is a very old version of Jigsaw, you might want to > upgrade to the latest release, lots of things has been added > in the WebDAV support to provide better compatibility with > the behaviour of some clients. > To do so, just update the jars, with the one in the new > release, it will automatically update the configuration of > your existing setup. > Regards, > > -- > Yves Lafon - W3C > "Baroula que barouleras, au tiéu toujou t'entourneras." > I did a little snooping around, and noticed that Jigsaw does not add the MS-Author-Via header to its response messages. This header is not part of the WebDAV standard, but is included in many WebDAV server implementations to be compatible with Microsoft clients. I added the header to my own copy of the Jigsaw source, and bingo! Jogsaw started working with Microsoft WebDAV clients. Any chance of including this header in a future release of Jigsaw, or making it a configurable option? -Dave
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