XMLspy error

Question

Hi all,
when I try to Add BizPackage Document to the project and more specifically Server URL: http://localhost:8080/B1iXcellerator/exec/dummy I receive the error mess:
HTTP error: could not PROPFIND file 'http://localhost:8080/B1iXcellerator/exec/dummy' on server localhost (403)
I am using Windows 2003 Server, SAP 8.8 and xmlspy enterprise edition 2011. I have also started WebDAV
However is there another way to locate and modify the xml files?
Best Regards,
Vangelis

Answer 1

Hi Hany,
I already had opened service calls at Altova and SAP regarding this issue. It is related to a small bug in B1i when responding to a PROPFIND request with an url path with trailing slash.
This bug should be fixed in the next B1i Patch.
Meanwhile you can use the following workarounds:
In older versions of XMLSpy you could just enter the path without trailing slash:
http://localhost:8080/B1iXcellerator/exec/dummy
Since the newer Version of XMLSpy automatically adds the trailing slash (which is the proper behaviour of a WebDAV client), you have to eleminate the additional slash in the resulting url path:
http://localhost:8080/B1iXcellerator/exec/dummy//sim.com.sap.b1i.datasync.001/bp.Z.PRIELL/BizPackageMETA.xml
=>
http://localhost:8080/B1iXcellerator/exec/dummy/sim.com.sap.b1i.datasync.001/bp.Z.PRIELL/BizPackageMETA.xml
The other way is to create a project with the external webfolder. Unfortunately XMLSpy adds the trailing slash also here. So you have to edit the created project file (.spp) afterwards to delete the trainling slash. Then it should look like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Project>
     <ExtMountFolder FolderName="http://localhost:8080/B1iXcellerator/exec/dummy"/>
</Project>
Kind regards,
Marcus