Microsoft WebDav opens document as Read-Only when using RailsDav
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008I had been working on a project in which we wanted to utilize WebDAV (namely for editing Word & Excel Documents that were saved in our application). In order to do this we decided to use a plugin from liverail.net that can be found here. It was pretty easy to hook up after a little direction from a guy over at Benryan Inc [apologies I cannot find a link for them], but there was a major issue. When opening a document through the ActiveX controller for editing it was opening in Read-Only mode.
After a few starts and stops, many hours of reading through the webdav documentation, and browsing through the http traffic using Fiddler - it was determined that locking was the issue.