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

I found that Confluence can do this. They have special Firefox plugin, but it should work fine with Internet Explorer.

• Editing a Confluence Page in an Office Application
• Installing the Firefox Add-on for the OFfice Connector

In fact, when I started to play with it, it turned out that IE does actually opening document directly from WebDAV. It seems like if IE downloaded the page, passed it to MS Word, but together with URL. MS Word can then save file back (well, sometimes it sees the file as read-only, and doesn't allow to save back, but allows to upload under different name).

Still investigating.