OpenOffice information

Connecting with Open Office

You can easily use urls in the Open Office file dialog. You should make sure you are using open office dialogs, and not the standard operating system ones. You can change this in: Tools, Options menu. (or the Preferences menu in OS/X).

Implementor notes

OpenOffice is a very simple client, and doesn't seem to use any locking. In general it's pretty lightweight, but I did notice if I'm entering a new filename (when saving) it will try to make sure the file exists for every character I entered. So if you have a 10-character filename, at least 10 requests will be done while you're typing.

Protocol details

• Supports both Digest and Basic auth.

Properties

The following properties are requested for each client:

In the DAV: namespace

• getcontentlength
• getlastmodified
• creationdate
• resourcetype

From the `http://ucb.openoffice.org/dav/props/` namespace:

• TargetUrl
• IsHidden
• IsVolume
• IsRemote
• IsRemovable
• IsFloppy
• IsCompactDisc

Yes, the properties are a bit odd, and I wonder what physical effect they might have.

Authentication

Open Office understands both HTTP Basic and Digest authentication.