topic Re: Webdav copy & Windows 7 problem in Alfresco Archive

Webdav copy & Windows 7 problem

blannoy — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:22:09 GMT

Hi,we're using alfresco Enterprise 3.3 and are having some trouble with using webdav from W7 computers. We get a webdav explorer view on the repository and can open documents.However when we try to copy/paste docs into that explorer, the operation fails.W7 seems to think that the file is already the

Re: Webdav copy & Windows 7 problem

mrogers — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:28:46 GMT

Have you contacted Alfresco support?

Re: Webdav copy & Windows 7 problem

blannoy — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:31:09 GMT

No not yet, I thought someone may have had similar problems + a solution

Re: Webdav copy & Windows 7 problem

mrogers — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:42:08 GMT

Yes there are problems with Windows7 and WebDav. There's discussion threads on these forums about using different (Non MS) WebDav clients for Windows 7.

Re: Webdav copy & Windows 7 problem

blannoy — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:38:25 GMT

Hi,

fyi, I found the cause.
It seems to be related to the lock-method.
When I disabled webdav locking in windows 7 (registry entry for webclient ) the copy ran without a problem.
A closer look to the difference in response from apache and alfresco showed that alfresco returns a response without namespaces:
<prop xmlns="DAV:">
<lockdiscovery>
<activelock>
….
</prop>
While in Apache I get something like
<D:smileytongue:rop xmlns="DAV:">
<D:lockdiscovery>
<D:activelock>
….
</D:smileytongue:rop>

In other methods like PROPFIND in alfresco this is with a namespace like <D:….>
Manually changing this on the fly in Fiddler makes the copy/paste option succeed.
So now its up to the developers

Bob