Few days ago I was talking about funny things with Domino's webdav feature. And was really excited about it. I've used it for a while now, was really confident in it and was about to deliver it to the users. Until a strange error has been reported this morning : a file cannot be copied on the webdav share I've set up. A file whose name doesn't contain any '%' symbol (yes, remember, Domino's HTTP task cannot handle '%' in URL). I tried myself, and indeed, the file cannot be copied and explorer displays a pretty obscure error message. Then I opened the domlog in order to find some explanations, and guess what I've found :

HTTP Web Server: The name contains invalid characters or is too long

How funny. Further analyses have shown that the filename's length of the shared resources is limited to 133 bytes, which suits to most of the tree structures. Most of, but not all. I do not see any workaround to this issue, and it's highly probable that there is not.

Honestly, it pisses me off. I know I am blamable and it was in some way hacking the Domino system in order to leverage its features and is by no way supported by IBM, but hey, why couldn't it work ? Why, ô why things just never work as they should with Domino ?

Yes, I am whining again. But as stated Ed Brill, I am an armchair quarterback after all, aren't I ?