Cs-method: Lock?

What are LOCK, OPTIONS, and PROPFIND?

[craig_d]

Some of our users have reported problems downloading/accessing Excel files. I've searched through the logs and could only find these anomalies under CS-METHOD:

2005-10-13 20:25:11 xx.#*$! - #*$!.#*$!.xx.#*$! 80 OPTIONS /downloads/servo_motors/motor_data - 200 406 Microsoft+Data+Access+Internet+Publishing+Provider+Cache+Manager
2005-10-13 20:25:12 #*$!.xxx.xx.xxx - xxx.xxx.xx.xxx 80 LOCK /downloads/servo_motors/motor_data/3515.xls - 400 4190 Microsoft+Data+Access+Internet+Publishing+Provider+DAV
2005-10-13 20:25:12 xxx.xxx.xx.xxx - xxx.xxx.xx.xxx 80 GET /downloads/servo_motors/motor_data/3515.xls - 304 272 Microsoft+Data+Access+Internet+Publishing+Provider+DAV
2005-10-13 20:25:12 xxx.xxx.xx.xxx - xxx.xxx.xx.xxx 80 GET /downloads/servo_motors/motor_data/3515.xls - 304 272 Microsoft+Data+Access+Internet+Publishing+Provider+DAV
2005-10-13 20:25:12 xxx.xxx.xx.xxx - xxx.xxx.xx.xxx 80 GET /downloads/servo_motors/motor_data/3515.xls - 304 163 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+98)

I can't find any documentation on LOCK, OPTIONS, or PROPFIND -- the M$ site wasn't much help. What do they mean? Could this be the problem users are reporting? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[craig_d]

What, no help?

I'd assumed this was something I missed in LogFiles 101.

[larryn]

Craig,

Those requests are part of WebDAV. Googling "method post lock options propfind" yields:

[webdav.org...]

Larry

[craig_d]

Thanks Larry for the details.