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WebDAV Interoperability Event July 19-20, 2001 Report

Larry Masinter Adobe Systems Incorporated http://larry.masinter.net

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WebDAV Interoperability Event

Hosted by Jim Whitehead, UC Santa Cruz

No registration fees Hubs, cables loaned by Paul Hoffman, IMC Lunch, snacks donated by Xythos, Oracle, Adobe

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WebDAV Interop July 19-20

58 people from 20 organizations 35 implementations

17 clients, 18 servers (5 open source)

Commercial and open source

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Results: We have work to do

Lots of pairs tested; few worked well Common implementation issues A few new RFC 2518 issues

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Other Highlights

Most brought laptops

Quick setup and tear-down

Some brought source or did fixes overnight

Improvements between Thursday & Friday

“Code Red” worm hit Internet during event

Two laptops were compromised Free security scanning as well as interop(!)

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Follow up: try again soon

Proposal: ‘virtual’ interop late September

4 hour test window Servers on net, voice conference call for participants

Mailing list: interop@webdav.org Who here wants to participate? help?

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Follow up: implementor’s guide?

Found implementation problems…

ignored 2nd credentials on same connection Assuming root of URI is DAV-controlled Not many implementations of some options, e.g.,

PROPPATCH for complex properties, shared locks

Write up common implementation mistakes?

Separate RFC? Volunteer editor(s)?

Discussion of issues