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Asked: 2026-05-11T10:57:33+00:00

Let’s suppose that I have WebDAV-enabled server, where I have bunch of Office documents.

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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 link will open Microsoft Word. Word will in turn download document from WebDAV server, and when user finishes editing document, MS Word will upload it back.

I know that MS Word (and other Office programs) support editing of documents stored on WebDAV server. What I don’t know, is how to generate link which will trigger MS Word to download this document by itself.

Is it possible? Maybe using some special scheme?

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  1. As far as I recall, the only way to achieve this is to explicitly instantiate Word through ActiveX, and the pass it the URL to open.

    This can be done inside the HTML page (in which it’ll need IE), or using an external application that then would need to be registered for a new mime type (see http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc4709.html#rfc.section.B.1 for an example).

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