http dav support

[John A Meinel]

Robey Pointer wrote:
> Really cool/interesting summary of UBZ, thanks Aaron. :)
> 
> Reading it brought up this question:  Is anyone working on or
> investigating HTTP DAV support?
> 
> I did a quick google and it looks like there's a standard (tiny!) davlib
> module out there for python.  Debian even has it as an individual
> package.  So I think it might actually be pretty simple to get DAV
> working, but I don't want to step on anyone's toes if someone else is
> already playing with it, since I know very little about DAV.

I don't think anyone has looked into it yet. There are a few people who
claim it is a must for them.

If you want to give davlib a look, and implement a DavTransport, similar
to the SftpTransport, that would be nice.

We might have to work out some policy, since we would want people to
still have access to read-only http access, even if they don't have
davlib installed, but it would be nice to be able to upgrade them to
write-access if the remote location supports it.

As far as I know, read-only webdav is just plain http. It is only when
you go to write that you need webdav.
So maybe we could try to load davlib, and if it loads, then we have
implementations for the write() functions in HttpTransport. If it fails
to load, then we just complain that you must have davlib installed to
have write support.

Probably this is easiest done to start with by creating a plugin, and
having it inherit from http transport, and then register itself as the
http handler. (or only register itself if davlib is available).

John
=:->

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> robey
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