Editing MS Office documents from a web application: custom WebDaV implementation or …?

Question

Following is our setup & requirement:

• There\'s a public web application accessible via SSL + Basic Authentication. Most of these applications are in ASP.Ne

Answer 1

What's wrong with WebDAV? There exists a couple of third-party WebDAV server components which you can plug to your server-side application (www.webdavsystem.com, our WebDAVBlackbox).

Alternatively you can create a virtual file system on the client which will communicate with the server using some other protocol (either plain HTTP if it is easier for you to implement handling this way or FTP or SFTP).