Re: ie5 and .doc URLs

[Jason.Haar () TRIMBLE CO NZ (Jason Haar)]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 02:39:00PM +0200, Olivier Thereaux wrote:
> xxx - "GET /~yoda/document.doc HTTP/1.0" 200 83456
> xxx - "OPTIONS /~yoda HTTP/1.0" 301 230
> xxx - "GET /_vti_inf.html HTTP/1.0" 200 3042
> xxx - "POST /_vti_bin/shtml.exe/_vti_rpc HTTP/1.0" 302 215
> xxx - "OPTIONS /~yoda/document.doc HTTP/1.0" 200 -

I can confirm it's IE's way of seeing whether or not it has WRITE access to
the file. The /_vti_inf.html style stuff is checking to see if you have
FrontPage extensions, and the OPTIONS test is to see if you have WebDAV
extensions - both possible ways of altering files via HTTP.

You will find that their browser has something like Frontpage installed (or
"M$ web editing" - something like that) - that then causes the above
behaviour. Removing that component from their browser will stop the above
action.

We have had a LOT of random problems with that bl%%dy thing - users were
getting "access denied" errors to .doc files stored on Apache web
servers/etc...

Typical M$....


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Cheers

Jason Haar

Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417