Webdav Compatibility Matrix

Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 7
Office 2000 Office 2003 Office 2007 Office 2000 Office 2003 Office 2007 Office 2000 Office 2003 Office 2007
Regular HTTP* N/A N/A OK N/A N/A
Orig Orig+HF SP1 SP1+HF SP2
NOT OK NOT OK NOT OK OK OK
N/A N/A OK
Self Signed SSL* N/A N/A OK N/A N/A NOT OK - Invalid certificate N/A N/A NOT OK - Invalid certificate
Valid SSL certificate* N/A N/A OK N/A N/A
Orig Orig+HF SP1 SP1+HF SP2
NOT OK NOT OK NOT OK OK OK
N/A N/A OK

IssueSolution
Slow connection on Windows 7
  1. In Internet Explorer, open the Tools menu, then click Internet Options.
  2. Select the Connections tab.
  3. Click the LAN Settings button.
  4. Uncheck the "Automatically detect settings" box.
  5. Click OK until you're out of all the dialogs.

LegendExplanation
HFHotFix, [KB942392]
N/ANot tested yet

* All resources tested against had root addresses with Webdav disabled. Consider http://www.mydomain.com/webdav/resource.txt. In all my tests http://www.mydomain.com/ did not support webdav requests.