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IIS WebDav problems - beachball
Authored by: jfaughnan on Jun 30, '02 10:12:51AM

I'm quite interested in this topic. WebDav is interesting as a relatively open file server protocol with cross-platfrom and web management integration.

In my testing the OS X 10.1.15 client works well with Apple's WebDav and MyDocsOnline (both are perhaps mod_dav?). It does NOT work with the WebDav server bundled with Win 2K workstation (IIS 5/personal). I get a spinning beachball of death and Finder lockout that lasts about 5-10 minutes, after which my IIS webdav folder does mount. I can browse it, but if I try to copy a 2K file to it I get another 5-10 minutes of spinning. (Looks like some process is blocking until it times out?) If I persist in moving files I see some evidence of HFS+ corruption, but that may be related to the inevitable forced shutdown.

I have downloaded several free (personal use) non-IIS Win2K (Java) webdav clients for further experimentation, but have not installed them. I am avoiding Win2K Apache for now becase of my perception of its complexity.

john

PS. Ironically the MacOS X web-board doesn't have wrap=on attributes set in the HTML textbox control, so the textbox entry works as intended with IE but not with many other Mac browsers.



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