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Documentaion woes
Wesley Moxam <wesley.moxam(at)tsotinc.com>
2007-05-03 21:20:47 [ FULL ]
Hello,

I just had a hell of a time configuring mongrel to play nicely with  
WebDAV. The README file contains the following:

--enable-msdav -- enable or disable support for the Microsoft WebDAV  
extensions (default: disabled).

However the CHANGELOG says:

Cumulative changes since 2.1:
...
- removed msdav compile-time configuration flag and MSDAV  
configuration flag, extended xHTTP to allow for
     WebDAV, MS-DAV and MS-RPC
...

Also the README says:

In addition to this flag you must specify 'WebDAV 1' in the config file.
If you also use the SSL wrapper feature in front of a Microsoft server
you should probably also add 'AddHeader "Front-End-Https: on"'.

These changes are also required to access a Subversion server via Pound.

(Note: the Pound homepage (http://www.apsis.ch/pound/) contains this
 
info as well).

This is incorrect. Putting 'WebDAV 1' in the config file will result  
in Pound complaining about a configuration error. After much googling  
I found (http://www.slashdotdash.net/articles/2007/01/23/deploying-

rails-with-pound-rest-headache) that the solution was to use 'xHTTP 2' .

I realize now that the man page is in fact up to date, but since I  
consulted the Pound homepage first, I wasn't looking for the xHTTP  
keyword and missed it.

Could the documentation be updated to save others from having to  
search around?
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