Re: URI encoding

Julian Reschke <[email protected]> Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:45:26 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.slide.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Eirikur Hrafnsson schrieb:
> Hi,
>>  Hi,
>>  You are correct, it is the windows client that made the problem. I 
>> have found an update for the 'web folders' and have installed it, and 
>> now it is better with the names, though windows client is still bad - 
>> when I upload a file the whole explorer including the desktop hangs 
>> until the upload completes. I'll try to find this netdrive, it is not 
>> officially available, since it is very old I guess. I am not sure if 
>> it is the best solution though, since I'll have to tell my clients to 
>> download it and install it from an unofficial source, and i would have 
>> not been comfortable if someone else had told me that. By the way, 
>> does netdrive allow resuming broken/interupted uploads?
> Yeah NetDrive was always on the Novell webpage put has been buried 
> somewhere. We have many clients in government using it everyday for our 
> webapps and its not "old" really. It just works well.
> The user can map a webdav directory as a Drive letter in windows, 
> something that webfolders can't do (i think). Just remember to go to 
> advanced features and set it to use "UTF-8" if you use that on the server.
> You can probably save the settings and just send the config file to your 
> clients...
> 
> Btw I don't think webdav supports resuming uploads at all, not sure 
> about downloads...

WebDAV supports what HTTP supports here. PUT with "Range" request header 
is IMHO underspecified and thus implemented nowhere, while GET with 
"Range" should be supported by all good WebDAV implementations.

Best regards, Julian