Autoversioning, Web Folders, HTTP 401

Couldn't find mention of this in the archives...

Trying to get Web Folders working with autoversioning, i found myself
able to browse the repository just fine, but when i tried to
upload/publish a file, Windows gave me a very unhelpful error message.
The apache log revealed a 401 response code. Apparently Windows *should*
respond by prompting me for a username/password, but wasn't.

A web search uncovered the following, which appears to be relevant:

  http://dav.lyra.org/pipermail/dav-dev/2000-August/001445.html

Following the reply to the above message, i made the following change to
my httpd.conf:

- <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
- Require valid-user
- </LimitExcept>
+ Require valid-user

And now i can GET and PUT without difficulty (although it does have a
way of prompting for my password every few requests).

I'd prefer to allow unauthenticated read-only access to my repository,
so if anyone knows another way around this problem, let me know.

And, should Appendix D mention this issue?

-brian

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Received on Mon Mar 24 03:54:01 2003