Office 2000 Compatibility

[Brian Behlendorf <br...@hyperreal.org>]

So, does anyone know what the deal is w/r/t Office 2000 support?  I seem
to recall that DAV was the protocol O2K was going to use to do its remote
publishing, but weren't some details changed at the last minute?  Greg,
what's the status of mod_dav?

I'd really like to get some sort of "statement" we can put on the site
about this, as I've gotten several inquiries about this, like the one
below.

	Brian

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 08:49:39 -0600
From: nikg <ni...@home.com>
To: brian@behlendorf.com
Subject: Office 2000 Compatibility

Hello,

I have my own consulting company and one of the things I have been doing
is Web Development and Web Hosting using Apache and different flavors of
Unix. Recently with the release of Microsoft Office 2000 many of my
clients are requesting to be able to use it's web features. Ex:
Publishing Word, Powerpoint and Excel documents directly onto the Web
Server.

At the present time if you want to use those features you must be
running Microsoft's IIS Web Server and using Internet Explorer. Do you
think there is any way that Apache running on a Unix platform would
sometime soon have the capability to publish those documents submitted
by Office 2000 users? I truly believe that Apache running on Unix is the
Web Server of choice and I have implemented it at over 250 client sites
but 100% of my business clients use Microsoft Office, if they all
upgrade to Office 2000 (which they definitely will do) then I will have
a problem.

Any response would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Re: Office 2000 Compatibility

[Greg Stein <gs...@lyra.org>]

On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Keith Wannamaker wrote:
>...
> I am within two weeks of upgrading mod_dav to a beta class 2 DAV server - one
> fully interoperable with O2K.  Greg has already committed my mod_dav port to
> Win32, along with much preliminary locking code.

Keith has submitted even more code, but I'm out of town right now. It will
go in around the 28th of June. Keith's assistance with the locking means
that mod_dav 1.0 will have both class 1 and class 2 functionality. (thx!)

> Greg has mentioned doing the next release of mod_dav mid-summer; this fits well
> with my schedule, giving us several weeks to test and tweak.  I fully expect
> this release of mod_dav to be a stable class 2 DAV server, with verified
> interoperability with O2K.

Minor correction: the next release (0.9.9) will appear just after 1.3.7. 
The final 1.0 release should be mid-summer.

And O2K compat is a requirement for the 1.0 release.

Cheers,
-g

--
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/

Re: Office 2000 Compatibility

[Brian Behlendorf <br...@hyperreal.org>]

On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Keith Wannamaker wrote:
> Brian Behlendorf wrote:
> > 
> > So, does anyone know what the deal is w/r/t Office 2000 support?  I seem
> > to recall that DAV was the protocol O2K was going to use
> 
> mod_dav currently implements a class 1 DAV server - that is, one that supports
> the minimum requirements of RFC 2518 without locking.  Thus, O2K opens documents
> through mod_dav read-only.
> 
> I am within two weeks of upgrading mod_dav to a beta class 2 DAV server - one
> fully interoperable with O2K.  Greg has already committed my mod_dav port to
> Win32, along with much preliminary locking code.
> 
> Greg has mentioned doing the next release of mod_dav mid-summer; this fits well
> with my schedule, giving us several weeks to test and tweak.  I fully expect
> this release of mod_dav to be a stable class 2 DAV server, with verified
> interoperability with O2K.

Woohoo!  That's cool.  Thanks.

	Brian

Re: Office 2000 Compatibility

[Keith Wannamaker <kr...@raleigh.ibm.com>]

Brian Behlendorf wrote:
> 
> So, does anyone know what the deal is w/r/t Office 2000 support?  I seem
> to recall that DAV was the protocol O2K was going to use

mod_dav currently implements a class 1 DAV server - that is, one that supports
the minimum requirements of RFC 2518 without locking.  Thus, O2K opens documents
through mod_dav read-only.

I am within two weeks of upgrading mod_dav to a beta class 2 DAV server - one
fully interoperable with O2K.  Greg has already committed my mod_dav port to
Win32, along with much preliminary locking code.

Greg has mentioned doing the next release of mod_dav mid-summer; this fits well
with my schedule, giving us several weeks to test and tweak.  I fully expect
this release of mod_dav to be a stable class 2 DAV server, with verified
interoperability with O2K.

-- 
Keith Wannamaker
IBM HTTP Server Development 
RTP NC, USA