I have a use case that seems pretty simple, but after Googling around I can't find a solution. I have some Word documents on an FTP server and I'd like to be able to create a link that would download them into Word and then allow the saved changes to be sent back to the FTP server.
The problem is that I can only get Word to either open the file from the FTP server as read-only and I can't save the changes back to the server automatically, or the file downloads to a temporary location which isn't automatically saved back to the server. I'm creating my link like this:
<a href="ftp://ftp.example.com/www/uploads/Image/test.doc">Test</a>
Frustratingly, if I go into Word File|Open and paste the link "ftp://ftp.example.com/www/uploads/Image/test.doc" I can save back to the server. What gives? Is there a solution? From Googling around it seems that Sharepoint offers this ability, but that's not practical for us. We're using IE7 and Office 2003.