thanks justin - I would never have found that.

I can't actually get it working at the moment. it seems to repeatedly ask
for 401 authentication, and the one time I did get it working, it seemed to
only be able to view folders and not directly open a word document.

still, it's better than nothing :-)

Andy

"Justin Rich" <jrich523******.com.spam> wrote in message
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> never realized this was such a problem
> this was the best i could locate.
>
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms531432.aspx
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> Justin
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> "Andy Fish" <ajfish@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:eqdXFS2pHHA.1776@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> 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
>>
>>
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