XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.msdos.batch.nt   
   XPost: comp.mobile.android   
   From: bill@anarchists.org   
      
   On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 22:51:28 -0000 (UTC), Andrew wrote:   
      
   > It's actually surprisingly shocking that not only is "DavWWWRoot"   
   > universally used by all WebDav servers (AFAIK), but NONE of them seem to   
   > tell you that. WTF?   
      
   The reason is that DavWWWRoot has absolutely nothing to do with Android.   
      
   Nor does DavWWWRoot have anything to do with the Android Webdav server APK.   
   You could grep Android Webdave server source code & you'd never find it.   
      
   Nobody on Android knows about it but those on Windows use it all the time.   
      
   It's a Windows-only keyword so only people who know Windows know of it.   
   https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Desktop/What-exactly-i   
   -DavWWWRoot/td-p/1827535   
      
   Everyone who knows Windows well has been using it for years though.   
   https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/sharepoin   
   -explorer-mapping-folders-via-davwwwroot/7e121644-d3df-4001-a624-c5b7d6541013   
      
   It's just not something Android users have come across before.   
   https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21706142/what-is-davwwwroot   
      
   DavWWWRoot is a special keyword recognized by Windows Shell. There is no   
   such folder on your WebDAV server and you should not create it. You also   
   will not find any DavWWWRoot name in requests to your server. The   
   DavWWWRoot keyword tells the Windows Mini-Redirector driver, which handles   
   WebDAV requests, that you are connecting to the root of WebDAV server.   
      
   So if you knew Windows like everyone else does, you'd have known that the   
   reason it's not mentioned anywhere in your Android documentation is that   
   it's a common Windows variable (much like %Path% & %Comspec% are).   
      
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