Forum OpenACS Development: ANN: nsDAV - WebDAV for AOLserver

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Posted by Talli Somekh on
Musea Technologies is proud to announce the alpha release of nsDAV, an implementation of the Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning protocol for AOLserver. The following FAQ has been prepared by Talli Somekh and Todd Gillespie.

Visit www.museatech.net/nsdav to download the alpha code and to see the following FAQ:

  • WebDAV Executive Summary
  • Why is WebDAV cool?
  • How does WebDAV work?
  • How can and will WebDAV be used in OACS?
  • What is Museatech doing to build WebDAV?
  • What we are working on, what we will we not be doing, and/or how you can help
  • WebDAV Technical Basics
  • Downloading / Installation

Feel free to post findings or suggestions to this thread or start new ones. Bugs should be posted to the OACS bug tracker for now.

I'd like to thank Todd for starting this work.

Happy hacking!!

talli

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2: update (response to 1)
Posted by Todd Gillespie on
There's a demo running at http://www.museatech.net:8000/dav/. Some features that have been troublesome are disabled. 95% of the code is there, but there's wierd timeout issues on all the LOCK/UNLOCK stuff, so they're set to give an HTTP405 error.

The beta is at: http://www.museatech.net/ns_dav-beta-1.tar.gz

I could use any spare hands on finishing this effort.

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3: Re: update (response to 2)
Posted by M Butcher on
I cannot connect to your demo server:

$ cadaver http://www.museatech.com:8000/dav/
Could not connect to `www.museatech.com' on port 8000:
Could not connect to server: Connection refused
dav:!>

Did you take it down, now?

Thanks,

Matt

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Posted by Talli Somekh on
Sorry, should have mentioned that the demo has moved: http://66.250.57.133/dav/

talli

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Posted by Bart Teeuwisse on
Talli,

http://66.250.57.133/dav/ produces a blank page. Are you sure this is the correct address?

/Bart

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Posted by Talli Somekh on
Bart, you need to connect to the DAV server using a DAV client. If you are on:
  • Linux - Cadaver
  • OS X - go to Finder -> Go -> Connect to Server and connect to http://66.250.57.133/dav/ Make sure to use http://
  • Windows - Actually, I don't know. But there is probably something in Win that lets you connect. Check WebDAV.org

talli

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Posted by Bart Teeuwisse on
Thanks Talli.

When I first checked -a few days ago- I couldn't download the ns_dav tar file either. Just assumed that the file would also be available from the new address. My bad.

/Bart

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Posted by C. R. Oldham on
In Windows you can connect to a DAV resource by using Web Folders.  Unfortunately it does not seem to work with nsdav.  I get "The folder you entered does not appear to be valid.  Please choose another."

I have used this to connect to other DAV resources, so I know it works.

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Posted by Bruno Mattarollo on
Wow! Cool Talli, I can connect with my OS X, no problem. The only file present there at the moment is a README file, correct?

Congratulations. I am looking forward to some interface to the content repository ;)

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Posted by Talli Somekh on
Bart, that's a good idea! I'll get the nsdav source into the webfolder.

talli