17 Mar
2005
17 Mar
'05
9:35 p.m.
WinOBJ or \Device\WebDavRedirector... I don't
think the webdav
redirector was introduced until WinXP.
My working system is W2K :-[
And WinOBJ is a sysinternals tool.
I know.
There's another version from a Russian developer called WinObjEx and
I am currently working on a reduced Delphi version for an article about the
native API.
\FileSystem\MRxDAV
So no doubt. You are right.
WebDAV using "Web Folders" as a client (I
think... definetely not
IIS, I don't have it.)
IIS is included (it replaced the PWS - Personal Web
Server - from Windows
9x/Me, just with limitations, e.g. 10 connections max.) in W2K/WXP (but not
installed by default), that's why I ask.
Windows XP is what I'm looking at... I don't
think web folders
were supported for 2000.
They are :) - but as I said as a shell namespace extension
not allowing for
mounting them to directories of DOS drive letters. And you had to install it
explicitly.
In WinXP, you can map a WebDAV url to a drive letter
and access
it from a DOS window, or any other win32 program.
That's not a shell extension (unfortunately; it would have been
really cool if shell extensions worked at that level.)
Hehe :) ... would you really
like this ... the word "malware" pops into my
mind ...
PS. Unfortunately, none of this proves that WebDAV
uses a user mode
component :-) That is just what I've heard. But WebDAV is definitely
a filesystem.
WebDAV is a meta-filesystem for sure, but the access to it is not
necessarily achieved via filesystem driver. Access of Midnight Commander to
an FTP URL does also not require a filesystem driver (just as an example).
Personally, I think it was wise of MS to not put a
full
blown webdav client in the kernel.
Definitely. That would be a perfect remote door
into kernelmode of any XP
machine. There's surely a usermode component.
Thanks for the information.
Oliver
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