I am in the process of placing federation authentication to a WebDav feature which I am trying to implement using the IT Hit Web DAV library. From the library documentation under Adding webdav to existing project, it mentions:
Neither Microsoft miniredirector nor Mac OS X Finder nor most versions of Microsoft Office support Forms/cookies authentication.
In addition to that, I had a look on some sources (from 2010) and read that a cookie cannot be sent through Windows Explorer.
However, I am using Windows 7 and I have mapped a WebDav folder to Microsoft SharePoint as well using Microsoft miniredirect and I can see (using Fiddler web debugging tool) that a cookie with the federation authentication token is sent along with the request.
From research I understood that I should be using Internet Explorer to achieve this. Not sure if I am misunderstanding something, Is there a way to attach the cookie to the request from Windows Explorer?
PS. I have logged in to the Webapp from internet explorer which then logged in to the federation gateway successfully.
Ok here are my comments and process so far. Might be helpful for someone also working on this.
I am using Internet Explorer, added my web app host to the trusted sites.. I have switched to forms authentication to persist the cookie. When I login to the web app first and then try to access the webdav from windows explorer, it picks the forms authentication cookie of the web app