Re: Office 2007 Docs open read only?

Hi,
just put Slide in the webapps/ROOT of your tomcat.

I had the same Problems with Office 2003 under XP and didn't know that 
registry tweak you mentioned. What I did is looking at the 
networktraffic with ethereal/wireshark and see that the webdav-client 
coming with the MS Office-Suite is testing a lot of things before 
reading a document. One thing is that it checks if one can read/write in 
each parent directory. As if you want to read 
http://localhost:8080/slide/docs/mydoc.doc MS-Office tries to read/write 
in "/slide/docs" (ok), "/slide" (ok, too) and "/" (!). At that moment 
tomcat gives an error because the used webdav calls are not http/html. 
Now MS-Office don't believes that server is webdav capable, this is why 
it doesn't want to write, it just downloads the document via http and 
saves it in a tmp-directory.
If you put slide into webapps/ROOT the folder "/" is a webdav-folder too 
and MS-Office is happy.
Hope that helps.

Yours
 Arne

Brian Schmidt schrieb:
> It looks like our problem is vista related. I was able to add the registry entry to a friends machine who is running Windows XP and Office 2007 and it worked. So i guess our issue is more vista related, but I still don't know how to fix it :/
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> -Brian
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> From: Krzysztof Domalewski [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thu 8/9/2007 8:15 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Office 2007 Docs open read only?
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> Hi,
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> I have the same problem. Vista x64, MS Office 2007.
> Everything works fine on MS Office XP or MS Office 2003.
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> Regards,
>
> Chris
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> Brian Schmidt-2 wrote:
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>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I am using slide to open and modify office docs. For Office 2003
>> documents, there was that registry tweak that allowed files to be open
>> read-write. I recently installed Office 2007 and all the documents open
>> read only. Has anyone else encountered this and know a work-around?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Brian
>>
>>
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