Re: Silly Mozilla question.

On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:58:04PM +0000, Joe Orton wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:15:13AM -0800, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> > "Sander Striker" <striker@apache.org> writes:
> >
> > > > This I *DON'T* have, at least I don't think so. What do I need to
> > > > add to my apache config for this?
> > >
> > > SVNAutoVersioning in your Location block.
> >
> > The statement "Mozilla speaks WebDAV" doesn't mean much. Win32, OS X,
> > Gnome, and KDE all speak WebDAV too. Whoopee. That means they know
> > how to issue LOCK, PUT, and UNLOCK http requests... not very
> > interesting, because they don't understand DeltaV versioning.
>
> Mozilla (and Netscape 4.x) don't actually speak DAV - they just do an
> HTTP/1.1 PUT when you "publish" a file from the Composer. (I think
> Netscape can use some non-standard HTTP extensions to do DAV-like
> authoring too, though I've never seen that in action)

Exactly. [ darn, Joe beat me to it :-) ]

Mozilla can (somehow) issue a non-standard MOVE request (something about
"Roaming Profiles"?). mod_dav happens to understand that, and will
compensate. See httpd-2.0/modules/dav/main/mod_dav.c::dav_method_copymove()

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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