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Re: [BUG] WebDAV doesn't work in Word

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: 2005-09-09 14:59:39 CEST

nick vajberg wrote:

>--- Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>
>>Branko ÄŒibej wrote:
>>
>>
>>>nick vajberg wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>P.S: Why does the lock expire after only 3
>>>>
>>>>
>>minutes?
>>
>>
>>>>This goes for locks aquired by any Office app, I
>>>>think.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>You should ask the MS Office developers. The DAV
>>>
>>>
>>client sets the lock
>>
>>
>>>timeout when creating the lock.
>>>
>>>
>>Office sets locks with 180s timeouts, and refreshes
>>them in time (well,
>>most of the times). So what's the problem with that?
>>
>>
>
>For people who work mostly offline: big problem.
>
>Our plan was to: Get the lock, get on the
>plane/train/whatever, keep working, get back and check
>in and release the lock.
>
>Unless lock expiration can be turned off/ignored on
>the server, SVN locking is essentially useless for
>people on the move.
>
>
That's nonsense.

You can lock the file using the svn client, and then there's no timeout.

Office won't work over DAV when you're offline, anyway.

-- Brane

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