Right now we are using a WEBDAV host to serve and handle documents for our application which users can process with their MS Word desktop application.
My goal is to replace this WEBDAV host with a WOPI host. For now this still should keep working with MS Word desktop application.
I am unable to find examples/articles which discuss this possibility and how this can be done. All examples/articles I found are about integration of Office for web into your application. That is just not what we want now, that is something for the longterm.
I hope someone can tell me or point me in the right direction if it is possible to use a WOPI host with MS Word desktop application to replace WEBDAV? And if so, what steps to follow?
Until now I spend most of my time searching for examples and articles on how I could achieve my goal of replacing our WEBDAV host with a WOPI host to serve/handle documents with MS Word desktop application.
And I have been playing around with a WOPI host example project (https://github.com/petrsvihlik/WopiHost) to see if I could let MS Word desktop application work by using the url from the WOPI host to open a document. The document does open but that's it. MS Word does not use the other WOPI calls when handling the document.
I hoped MS Word desktop application noticed it was a WOPI hosted url when opening the document.
It's not possible to allow editing in MS Word by implementing just WOPI. To enable this functionality, you need to set the WOPI CheckFileInfo's ClientUrl to a URL that either supports WebDAV or, according to some sources, MS-FSSHTTP.