The Apache server ssl error logs showed SSL library error reason code 199, which means that the client did not provide a client certificate. It seems that the Windows XP webdav client is not smart enough to supply a client certificate, even though the interface that explorer uses to fetch a file from the same directory (probably a ie component) does. Bummer.
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The Apache server ssl error logs showed SSL library error reason code 199, which means that the client did not provide a client certificate. It seems that the Windows XP webdav client is not smart enough to supply a client certificate, even though the interface that explorer uses to fetch a file from the same directory (probably an IE component) does. Bummer.
== Authentication using HTTP Basic Auth ==
== Authentication using HTTP Basic Auth ==
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Alternatively one might chose to have just one shared webdav area for all users, and use basic http authentication based on passwords.
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Alternatively one can chose to use basic http authentication based on passwords. This seems to be the preferred solution among people who have written documentation that I found on the web. Compared to pki it is clunky, but at least it works with Windows explorer.