AFAIK, VS.NET uses front page extensions to talk to the webserver. I
think I chose webdav when I first looked at it because it offers that as
an alternative when it can't open the solution w/FPE.
FPE seems to get around the permissions issue better than WebDAV does.
They've probably got some good hacks in there to make sure the whole
thing is painless. Unfortunately, front-page extensions are barely
documented - I couldn't find a suitable reference to base an
implementation off.
This was all before the <webmap> element made this stuff
less-than-useful, of course. :)
The more I think about it, the more I am in favour of just trashing the
WebDAV stuff. Does anyone *really* need to build a project on a remote
webserver? If so, we can always provide a workaround by HTTP GETing the
source and WebDAV putting the binaries, I suppose.
Matt.
On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 22:33, Gert Driesen wrote:
> Matthew, can you tell me what makes our WebDAV access to IIS so much more
> troublesome, than what VS.NET uses ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gert
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Mastracci" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Nant-Developers (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
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> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 1:04 AM
> Subject: [nant-dev] Re: Remove support for WebDAV from <solution> task ?
>
>
> The latest stuff has the EnableWebDAV stuff to prevent it being used by
> default. It's been in there for a month or so and tells the user to
> either provide a webmap or set EnableWebDAV = true to make it work.
>
> -1 for removing it - if people want it, they can be pointed at
> documentation to set up the server properly.
>
> /// <summary>
> /// Allow the task to use WebDAV for retrieving/compiling the
> projects within solution. Use of
> /// <see cref="WebMap" /> is preferred over WebDAV. The
> default is <see langword="false" />.
> /// </summary>
> /// <remarks>
> /// <para>WebDAV support requires permission changes to be
> made on your project server. These changes may affect
> /// the security of the server and should not be applied to
> a public installation.</para>
> /// <para>Consult your web server or the NAnt Wiki
> documentation for more information.</para>
> /// </remarks>
> [TaskAttribute("enablewebdav", Required = false)]
> [BooleanValidator()]
> public bool EnableWebDAV {
> get { return _enableWebDAV; }
> set { _enableWebDAV = value; }
> }
>
>
> Jaroslaw Kowalski wrote:
>
> > Perhaps we could have a <webdav-copy> task instead that would be similar
> to
> > <copy> but accept WebDAV sources/targets.
> >
> > +1 for the idea of removing WebDAV from the <solution> task.
> >
> > Jarek
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Erick Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Gert Driesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "NAnt Users Mailing List"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Nant-Developers (E-Mail)"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 11:47 PM
> > Subject: RE: [nant-dev] Remove support for WebDAV from <solution> task ?
> >
> >
> >
> >>I haven't used WebDAV, but if I could use it to distribute a website to a
> >
> > final server, it would be very very useful to me. At the moment, I have a
> > manual FTP step is required to move a web project to the production
> server.
> >
> >>Erick
> >>
> >>
> >>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gert
> >>>Driesen
> >>>Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 2:36 PM
> >>>To: NAnt Users Mailing List; Nant-Developers (E-Mail)
> >>>Subject: [nant-dev] Remove support for WebDAV from <solution> task ?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Hi,
> >>>
> >>>I'm just asking to get an idea of how many people actually
> >>>use it, but how
> >>>would you feel if we would remove WebDAV support from the
> >>><solution> task ?
> >>>
> >>>We've noticed that lots of people have problems configuring
> >>>their webserver,
> >>>in order to get the <solution> task working, so it might be
> >>>better to remove
> >>>support for WebDAV altogether. This would also allow us to
> >>>simplify some of
> >>>the code, and make the code easier to maintain.
> >>>
> >>>What do you think ?
> >>>
> >>>Gert
> >>>
> >>>
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