How to create a HTML link which forces MS Word to edit document on webdav server

Question

Let\'s suppose that I have WebDAV-enabled server, where I have bunch of Office documents. I\'d like to generate webpage which has link to document such that clicking on the

Answer 1

As far as I recall, the only way to achieve this is to explicitly instantiate Word through ActiveX, and the pass it the URL to open.

This can be done inside the HTML page (in which it'll need IE), or using an external application that then would need to be registered for a new mime type (see http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc4709.html#rfc.section.B.1 for an example).