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Recipe for broad client compatibility

So you want your webdav server to be accessible from windows XP to Win7, Linux, Mac OS and from the main office productivity suites Open Office and MS Office - right? Here's how to do it:

Note: All of these are required!

Server implementation requirements

Your DAV webapp must have a root context path, ie "/". NOT "/webdav" etc
Must run on port 80.
Must have Digest authentication enabled
Must support locking, including the awkward lock-null support for collections
Must allow unauthenticated OPTIONS requests

Client mapping requirements

Do not specify a port number in the URL (this contradicts some widespread information)
Do not specify user name in URL (ditto)

Live Demo

Connect to the following webdav address. Use the same credentials in the app context file in milton-filesystem-test, or ask the email group

http://miltondemo.ettrema.com/

This is very close to milton-filesystem-test. Feel free to use it to try out milton's webdav capabilities but please don't abuse it!
Do not store anything important there, all of the content in that repository will be deleted from time to time without notice.

Client compatibility summary

Note: where we refer to an operating system, we're actually referring to the native webdav client for that OS

Dav Client	Supported	Notes
Windows 2000	Yes	Uses Web Folders client
Windows XP Native	Yes	Uses Web Folders client
Windows XP (64 bit) Native	Unknown	Previous advice was that this doesnt work, but this hasnt been confirmed since Digest support was introduced into milton
Windows Vista	Yes	These comments are a bit old and need to be updated for 1.5.4 Might need this patch for some installations - KB907306 Can be a bit tricky to find what to click on to create a network location (its under My Computer, not Network Places) One strange issue i've seen is that sometimes a user can't open a folder by double clicking it, although they can open it from the pull down menu's in Vista's address bar. Weird.
Windows 7	Yes	Recent testing (as of July 2010) shows that Win7 has good support without any webdav specific patches, provided the conditions outlined above are met
MS Office	Yes	Recent testing (as of July 2010) has shown that MS Office 2003 works out of the box, both by opening a URL directly (which uses the web folder client) or when opening from a network place (which uses both the web folder client and the webdav redirector) All versions of MS office use the web folder client so we believe there should be broad compatibility across versions. Note that there is this webdav related hotfix - http://support.microsoft.com/KB/942392
Open Office	Yes	Must use the "Use open office dialogs" option. When using the windows dialog it will browser network places but won't open files from them.
Linux Gnome (Nautilus)	Yes	Enter urls with a protocol of dav:// not http://
Linux KDE	Yes
Mac OS	Yes	Implements some elaborate locking and committing mechanism which results in a large number of file operations
Novel Netdrive/Webdrive	Yes	Works as of webdrive 8.22 (updated Sep 2009)
Netdrive	No	Works well when the webapp runs from a context (eg /webdav) but displays the host name in the path when mounting the root (eg /) Currently (July 2010) in contact with the vendor who is being helpful
Bitkinex	Yes	Very reliable client application. Free.
OxygenXML	Yes	Very good dav enabled XML editor (I'm using it right now! Brad)
Dreamweaver	Yes	Synchronises with server using DAV. By default requires Digest authentication, but there is a patch to allow Basic auth
Cadaver (linux command line client)	Yes
Litmus Test	Yes	Results here (milton has changed a fair bit since it was last run)
Linux DavFS2	Yes	(From Russ) Make sure you mount is writable for the user accessing the mount. Example: sudo mount -t davfs "https://yoursite.com/" your_mount_point -o uid=your_username We did find an issue w/ Ubuntu 10.04 and SSL that was worked around by installing davfs2 from source. That appears to be an Ubuntu packaging issue that will hopefully be fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. http://savannah.nongnu.org/support/?107471
WebDAV Navigator for iOS (iPhone)	Yes	"..the WebDAV Navigator for iOS works great with Milton-based servers and basic auth, and it's free: http://seanashton.net/webdav" - Christian Bauer
PaderSyncDAV	Yes	For Android, Java ME and Blackberry - http://www.pader-sync.com/mobile-webdav-client.html Free trial, $10 to purchase.
Dav-E	NO	"DAV-E crashes immediately after the first authenticated PROPFIND request after the initial OPTIONS" - Christian http://greenbytes.de/dav-e.html Action: Have emailed the author at green-bytes, but havent had response (BM 30/11/2010)