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Hi,

Is the WebDAV UCB Provider still; working in OpenOffice 4.1.2 ?

I'm a C++ developer running OpenOffice 4.1.2 on Windows.

I am trying to open documents hosted on a WebDav server in OOO via the WebDAV UCB provider, but I am getting the following error:

"Error reading from the Internet. Server Error Message: ."

I'm using the custom UCB-enabled OpenOffice Open/Save dialogs.

I've tried all the following URL styles, but none of them appear to work:

vnd.sun.star.webdav://host:port/<path>
dav://host:port/<path>
http://host:port/<path>

Urls of the form "ftp://" and "file:///" appear to work fine.

I can access the same WebDAV server ok via CarotDAV and can see & sniff the TCP traffic from CarotDAV, but I am not seeing any TCP activity at all from OpenOffice.

Running under a debugger, I suspect it might be some form of issue between the UCB layer and the Serf library.

Is this a known issue (e.g. specific to windows) with any particular workarounds ?

Is it some form of platform-specific authentication support issue (even though I don't see any TCP traffic) ?

Is there any recent documentation explaining the appropriate URL's to use?

OK, I've resolved the issue.

I found the following bug report:

https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126312

After building serf.dll by hand from the version 1.3.8 serf source and replacing the old DLL, I was able to get it to work