[jcifs] Re: [Davenport-general] WebDAV Level 2 support

[Michael B Allen]

eglass1 at comcast.net said:
>
>> davenport seems to be missing webdav level 2 support, so on a Macintosh,
>> any webdav share can only be accessed in read-only mode.  Coordinating
>> smb locking with webdav locking might make matters difficult.  Is that
>> coordination one of the reasons why level 2 support has not been added?
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> Coordinating the two mechanisms may or may not be difficult,
> as I haven't even begun looking at it yet.

I would think because HTTP is stateless, it would be rather difficult to
implement what is effectively a stateful feature. What happends if you
lock a file and never return because your browser closed? Is there a way
for a servelet container to detect when a user has closed their session so
it can close the session to the CIFS server thereby unlocking any files?

Mike