On my windows, webdav for dotcms works fine. However, it does not work for my co-worekr's server. He is using linux.
For dotcms, do I have to enable something to use webdav?
By default it was enabled, check detail from here
You can access it by two URL links:
host:port/webdav/autopub (files are published as they are uploaded)
host:port/webdav/nonpub (files uploaded as "working" copies)
BTW, usually, you can download most of items, but when you upload files, you will fail.
No, all you need is a standards compliant client. OSX users can use finder to connect via webdav. For Windows users, try BitKinex as a client. The url should look like
http://yourserver.com/webdav/autopub
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I would like to implement a functionality in an MVC3 web application which would allow users to edit Microsoft Office documents directly with WebDAV but unfortunately I have no clue where to start. I have to make links for the documents which, once clicked, would open the documents and after the user saved a document, it should be uploaded back to the server.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
You would need probably some web browser plugin (ActiveX or Netscape API), which would handle this for you. You can pass the url of the document (with some authentication cookie) to that plugin on clicking of the link. The plugin than can download the file, open it using ShellExecute or similar (e.g.Launch services on mac) and on close of the file you can upload the file.
This is of course very basic usage and does not employ the strength of webDAV protocol. You should handle webdav locks for example or detect etags of the file before upload etc. to prevent some data loss. You would have to read more about webdav: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3744.txt.
I installed Wordpress on my station and its now being used internally for corporate blogging.
I wanted to know if there is a way to create links to servers in our intranet?
For example to access a server resource in windows I use Run->\server-name\folder\file.txt
How can I create a link to such file in Excel (or generally in HTML) that will be opened by Firefox & IE when clicked in Wordpress.
Thanks,
Roy
You can either map the servers to virtual hosts on the web server and create links like you would to any external file on the internet.
Or, if you insist, use
file
in your example:
file
After checking this, the right way to mimic a UNC form (at least in my case) was:
file
which is equal to
\\server-name\folder\file.txt
It works in Firefox (3.6) and IE (8).
We use Windows XP, all stations are in an Active Directory domain, in case it matters.
I have a hyperlink to an executable like so: Run Now
I'm trying to make the download dialog box appear without the save function as it is to only run only on the user's computer.
Is there any way to manipulate the file download dialog box?
FYI: Running on Windows Server '03' - IIS.
Please no suggestions for a WCF program.
Okay I found it for anyone stumbling upon this conundrum in the future.
Add the following tag to your head section: <meta name="DownloadOptions" content="nosave" /> and the file download dialog box will not display the "save" option.
For the user to not open/run but save replace "nosave" with "noopen"
Not unless you have some control over a user's machine. If your application can run on limited resources, you might want to consider doing it in Silverlight.
IMO, having a website launching an executable is a pretty bad idea.... even worst if that website is open to the general public (not on intranet). I don't know what that app is doing but it sure is NOT, 1) cross browser, 2) cross platform, and 3) safe for your users.
If you are on intranet, you might get away with giving the full server path (on a shared drive) to the executable and change security settings on your in-house machines.
Other than that, you won't succeed in a open environment such as the Internet.
From your comments, if the user downloading the file is the issue, then there's no way to get around it, as they have to download the file in order to be able to run it.
There's any number of ways to get around whatever you could manage in browser, from proxies like Fiddler intercepting the data, or lower level things like packet sniffing. Or even simply going into the browser's temp/cache folder and copying the file out once it's running.
You could probably get around most laymen by having a program that they can download that registers a file extension with Windows. Then the file downloaded from this site would have the URL of the actual data obfuscated somehow (crypto/encoding/ROT-13/etc). The app would then go and grab the file. The initial program could even have whatever functionality provided by what you want to download, but it needs the downloaded key.
But this is moving into the area of DRM and security by obscurity. If an attacker wants your file, and it's on the Internet, they will get the file.
I have a requirement for an admin user to set up an export directory on the web server, or relative to the web server using a UNC. Is there anything already out there that I can use for this, or must I recurs a limited directories and populate a home-rolled directory browser on the client?
I noticed this today ...a JQuery File Tree plugin. The link includes "connector scripts" in a number of server side languages including asp.net:
http://abeautifulsite.net/notebook.php?article=58
Looks awesome (and well documented) but I have not tried. I would love to hear feedback if anyone has...
Every solution to this problem I have seen is a home-rolled implementation of directory browsing.
When attaching a database on a SQL server, Microsoft uses a "custom" treeview to show drives/folders/files available to be attached.
Also, on DotNetNuke (an Open Source ASP.NET Content Management System) they have a home-rolled implementation as well for uploading files to Portal Folders...
We have created a web application, using ASP.NET, that allows users to upload documents and attach them to business entities, like customers, contacts and so on.
The application runs on the intranet and all files are uploaded through the web application into a shared folder on the server.
I would like, right from the web page, for the user to open the actual file, edit it and then save the changes back to the original location. This is a piece of cake in a Windows environment, I'm just wondering what, if any, is the best way to handle this in a web environment?
The files are usually Word documents, Excel documents and images.
Clarification
We would display all the attachments in a list format. We would like it so that the user would click on an edit link and the file would be opened in the appropriate application, for example, Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel. I think the file associations in Windows would already handle this. We are just trying to save our user the time to download the original file, make their changes, delete the old file, and the upload the new file.
SharePoint does this by exposing FrontPage extensions which Word and Excel know how to deal with.
If you want to look at a commercial product for ASP.NET that allows you to edit images with AJAX (no need for installed software), I work for a company that has one (Atalasoft)
WebDAV is probably what you want. (Free)
If all your client computers are Windows, map a shared folder on the server to the same drive letter on every client and use the file:// format.
Let's say you share \ServerName\ShareName to H: on every client's computer, the you can make the link as file://h:\pat_to_the_file_under_your_share\fileName.doc
If not every one of the client's computers are in Windows, then you might try to make your links as follows (not sure if ot works):
file://\ServerName\ShareName\pat_to_the_file_under_your_share\fileName.doc
I'm trying to do something with using file:// instead of http:// but it's real sporadic based on the browser. Seems to work fine in IE, okay in Firefox, and goes nowhere in Chrome.
Looks like I may just be stuck with downloading, editing, and re-uploading the document.
It sounds like you want something similar t eRoom, where the browser works in conjunction with a component that intercepts a stream from http, stores it in a temp folder, then fires up Word or Excel and allows you to edit the stream.
You may have to create a component that will intervene and create a temporary local copy of the file.
This tool should do what you need.
http://www.dlitools.com/dlitools/dlitoolsHome.nsf/0FA6B8B31F831F468525736B0001C606/4BBD7E8684EA8DB78525754E006C63A3?OpenDocument