sorry for the blatent cross-posting but but there doesn't seem to be a
webdav group anywhere.

when I create webdav entries in "my network places" the URL shown is just a
normal http url. if you click on it, it shows up in IE as webdav, but if you
just type the same URL into IE it shows as a web page. There seems to be
some magic going on behind the scenes so that explorer/IE knows the
difference.

my problem is this: inside a web application, I want to open up a word
document at a specific url, but this must be done by webdav, not by a
standard HTTP GET

is there any way of doing this? maybe some javascript jiggery pokery or HTTP
header i can send?

failing that, let's assume I have a something installed in windows that
wants to launch a word document as webdav. is there any way of achieving
that ?

sorry if I have got the terminology wrong but I'm sure you know what I am
trying to achieve

Andy