DAV Explorer Change Log

The current version of DAV Explorer is 0.91, February 22, 2005

Changes for version 0.91

Re-Enabled authentication requests for PUT, broken by changing to streaming PUT data in 0.82 (thanks to Marc Richard for alerting us to the problem.)
Added support for proxy entry in applet settings (thanks to Luis Ferreira for the suggestion.)
Fixed usage of webpage-provided username/password for applet usage.
Added workaround for Documentum Modified-Date bug (their date strings are localized, which violates RFC 2616) (thanks to Holger Spalt for alerting us to the problem.)
Integrated John Barton's refactoring changes and drop support.
Added the -Dcompress option to disable accepting compressed data. This is a workaround for a bug in MS Exchange that results in corrupt compressed data (thanks to Frederic Esnouf for alerting us to the problem.)
Added handling of ISO 8601 Date strings. This is a workaround for a bug in MS Exchange, whose date strings in the tag uses the ISO 8601 format instead of the RFC 2616 format required by the WebDAV RFC (thanks to Frederic Esnouf for alerting us to the problem.)
Fixed the charset handling and unencoding of data from the server.
Added Edit menu option to select SSL. The selection is persisted.
Added ACL (RFC 3744) support.

Changes for version 0.90

Fixed a bug in HTTPClient for PUT with Stream and Digest authentication.
Right view now works when columns are reorganized.
Right view now allows sorting on every column.
Added basic DeltaV support: version-control, checkout, uncheckout, checkin, report.

Changes for version 0.82

Made sure that DAV Explorer runs with JDK 1.1.x, for MacOS 9 compatibility
Updated to run with JDK 1.4
Incorporated Karen Schuchardt's changes to improve the loading of images
Added the -Dlocal option to disable reading and showing the local directory structure.
Fixed the icon locator code to account for drive letters on Windows.
Special handling of PUT to support files > 2GB.
Added Translate header to better support IIS.
Incorporated Brian Johnson's changes for applet support.
Incorporated Thoralf Rickert's progress bar and persistent URL support.
Lock info defaults to "DAV Explorer".
Added support for shared locks.

Changes for version 0.81

Fixed handling of default namespace in the view/modify property dialog.
Fixed menu selection of view/modify properties dialog.
Fixed problems with property addition to root.
Apache 1.3.x workaround: PROPPATCH returns a 500 error if the Host: header contains the port number. The workaround is activated with the option -DApache=yes
Made the MS SharePoint workaround optional. It is activated with the option -DSharePoint=yes
Improved handling of non-ASCII UTF-8 characters.
Improved the logging of chunked data.
Now allowing untrusted certificates by presenting a choice to the user.
Fixed problems with modifying nested properties.
Unified option selection to yes/no.

Changes for version 0.80

Makefile for HTTPClient now works with JSSE installed as "bundled" extension.
Fixed handling of EOF for whitespace after the final tag (interoperability bug with Adobe InScope).
Changed the parser code to allow tag names starting with a digit (interoperability problem with Microsoft SharePoint (a bug in SharePoint)).
Removed whitespace in the created XML for lockowner and keepalive properties.
Interoperability problem fixed for cases when properties for a collection and its contents are requested and the server doesn't send properties for the collection itself.
Modified the authentication code to make use of the HTTPClient functionality for Digest authentication.
Copy and Move now allow entering the target, making them more flexible.
For initial contact with a server, we now send an OPTIONS request.
Rewrite of the View Property dialog.
PROPPATCH support implemented (finally).
The package name of the main DAVExplorer files was changed to edu.uci.ics.DAVExplorer.

Changes for version 0.72

Support for operation through proxy servers
Update to HTTPClient 0.3.3

Changes for version 0.71

Fixed bug in HTTPClient that prevented proper handling of authentication in case the server allows multiple possible authentication headers (thanks to Thierry Janaudy for alerting us to this problem).
Fixed broken handling of & in filenames in the MS parser (thanks to Dennis Craig for alerting us to this problem).
Now using the standard https port (443) for requests with SSL.
Closing the properties dialog with the close button does not exit the application anymore.

Changes for version 0.70

Support for SSL (https protocol)
The SSL package supported is Sun's Java Secure Socket Extensions 1.0.2 (JSSE), available at http://java.sun.com/products/jsse/ SSL is activated with the following command line:
java -jar -Dssl=true DAVExplorer.jar
If a self-certified certificate is used, the certificate has to be added to the JSSE keystore with the keytool program from the Java JDK. On MS Windows, JSSE ignores the default keystore, instead, the certificate has to be stored in a particular JSSE keystore located in the JRE directory tree, usually at JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/jssecacerts
Compatibility with JDK 1.3 was confirmed. The DAVExplorer.jar file is now created with JDK 1.3.0
Interoperability problem (another SiblingEnumeration bug in the parser) with IIS 5.0 fixed (thanks to Ron Gutfinger for alerting us to this problem).

Changes for version 0.62

Improved recovery after server timeout

Changes for version 0.61

Added check for CDATA to improve interoperability for Sharemation's server.
Changed the enumeration in parseResponse() to SiblingEnumeration to avoid parsing the wrong href tag (thanks to Michelle Harris for alerting us to this problem).
Fixed string comparison in case of multiple tags.
The href tag is now stripped from lock owner string (thanks to Eric Giguere for submitting this fix).

Changes for version 0.60

Fixed logging of incoming data.
The DAV4J workaround (see below in the changes for version 0.57) is also required for locking support with mod_dav up to version 0.9.16.

Changes for version 0.59

Interoperability problem with www.sharemation.com fixed.
The authentication dialog now acts as Authentication Handler for HTTPClient.

Changes for version 0.58

Fix interoperability problem with Glyphica server: The Glyphica server returns a wrong locktoken field, and DAV Explorer did not react to this properly.

Changes for version 0.57

Workaround for interoperability with DAV4J The workaround is activated with the following command line:
java -jar -Dpropfind=allprop DAVExplorer.jar

Changes for version 0.56

DAVExplorer is now instrumented for function trace output. Function trace output is enabled by running DAVExplorer with the following command line:
java -jar -Ddebug=option DAVExplorer.jar
where option is one of:

all	all function traces are enabled
request	function traces related to HTTP requests are enabled
response	function traces related to HTTP responses are enabled
treeview	function traces related to the tree view on the left side of the DAVExplorer window are enabled
treenode	function traces related to each node in the tree view are enabled
fileview	function traces related to the file view on the right side of the DAVExplorer window are enabled

The trace output is written to stderr.

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Last updated: November 21, 2005