redirecting to a webdav URL

[Andy Fish]

sorry for the blatent cross-posting but but there doesn't seem to be a
webdav group anywhere.

when I create webdav entries in "my network places" the URL shown is just a
normal http url. if you click on it, it shows up in IE as webdav, but if you
just type the same URL into IE it shows as a web page. There seems to be
some magic going on behind the scenes so that explorer/IE knows the
difference.

my problem is this: inside a web application, I want to open up a word
document at a specific url, but this must be done by webdav, not by a
standard HTTP GET

is there any way of doing this? maybe some javascript jiggery pokery or HTTP
header i can send?

failing that, let's assume I have a something installed in windows that
wants to launch a word document as webdav. is there any way of achieving
that ?

sorry if I have got the terminology wrong but I'm sure you know what I am
trying to achieve

Andy

 

[Justin Rich]

never realized this was such a problem
this was the best i could locate.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms531432.aspx


Justin

 

[Andy Fish]

thanks justin - I would never have found that.

I can't actually get it working at the moment. it seems to repeatedly ask
for 401 authentication, and the one time I did get it working, it seemed to
only be able to view folders and not directly open a word document.

still, it's better than nothing

Andy

 

[Justin Rich]

I didnt really read over it too well, but the first code snipplet i used
seemed to work, kind of.

-----
<style>
a {behavior: url(#default#AnchorClick);}
</style>

<a href = "http://your_server.com/your_directory/your_file.htm"
folder = "http://your_server.com/your_directory/"
target = "_top"Open in Web Folder View
</a>
-------

i changed the href and folder value to be the same (just wanted to view the
contents, not open a file) and that seemed to work ok but really all it did
was convert the http path i provided to a UNC path.

wasnt too impressive. everything else i saw basically bashed MS for how they
handled webdav with IE.

I know Sharepoint does this sort of thing so it must be possible... but i
also know that sharepoint basically uses webdav as explained above, ie it
converts it to a UNC..

Justin