Are Microsofts FrontPage Server Extensions supported?
Microsoft does not presently allow third-party developers to port the FrontPage Server Extensions. In 1999, Microsoft has stated that their Office 2000 suite will use the WebDAV (distributed authoring and versioning) HTTP extensions for authoring; presumably, this will replace the FrontPage extensions. The Sambar Server will be enhanced to support WebDAV; a date for providing full WebDAV support has not yet been determined. According to some users, you don’t actually need the FrontPage extensions to use FrontPage to design your site, or even to publish your site to the Sambar Server. When you hit the Publish button in FrontPage, it attempts to connect directly to your server through the extensions. However, if FrontPage does not find the extensions, it automatically launches the Microsoft Web Publishing Wizard instead, which transfers the file via FTP. Ordinary web pages designed using FrontPage 98 should work fine against the Sambar Server (with FTP configured to run), even without th
