Mark,
First of all it is worth pointing out that this works quite happily for me on
WinXP using TC5.0.24 and IE6.
Ah, the wonderful world of M$.
There are difference between how tomcat 4 and 5 handle redirection from
www.yourhost.com/webdav to www.yourhost.com/webdav/ Either should be valid but
the webdav implementation in IE doesn't handle http redirection responses
correctly. This is why TC4 works with / but TC5 sometimes has trouble with IE
clients. Needless to say when I tried to report this to Microsoft they refused
to acknowledge this as a bug and said I needed to pay to get any further
support.
Do you know how the TC4 handles the redirection issue? We have a webapp to which we are adding webdav support. Our webdav implementation has exactly the same problem as the TC5 implementation when using IE clients. If we set the url-pattern to /* we break our webapp.
A few other thoughts: - does it work if you run TC5 on a windows box?
Have not tried this. I'll install on one of our boxes and test.
- are you using the webdav servlet as it comes with TC5?
We are.
Roy
Mark
-----Original Message-----From: Roy Gardner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 10:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: webdav servlet problems with Tomcat 5.0.24 and IE
I posted a bug (29094) on 19/04/04. The webdav webapp shipped with Tomcat 5.0.24 does not serve web folders to IE5 and IE6. The server platform is Solaris 8 on Sun. The same behaviour is exhibited when running Tomcat 5.0.24 on Mac OS X 10.3.3.
This is the case despite the following, recommended, web.xml setting which is supposed to deal with bugs in IE:
<servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>webdav</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping>
The problem does not occur in the webdav webapp supplied with Tomcat 4.1.12 even though its web.xml contains:
<servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>webdav</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping>
ie. the pattern that would evoke the IE bug.
Any insights would be welcome.
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