[Lispweb] [Slightly OT] DAV (Was: Araneida)

[John DeSoi]

On Apr 26, 2005, at 6:03 AM, Edi Weitz wrote:

> At the moment I've only implemented level 1 (plus our own extensions -
> see above).  It turns out we didn't need locking yet.  However, OS X
> says the files are read-only, maybe it wants DAV level 2.

Yes, you have to implement locking if you want to have anything more 
than a read-only volume in OS X. There is another OS X client called 
Goliath which does not have this requirement. But it is not nearly as 
cool as using the Finder for WebDAV operations.

I wrote a complete WebDAV server with locking (including the HTTP 
server) in 4D. It was certainly not a small job, but it can be 
accomplished by one person if you have good HTTT, XML, and databases 
libraries.

I would like to do one for Lisp some day, but no telling if I'll ever 
get around to it.


John DeSoi, Ph.D.
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