Forum OpenACS CMS: Re: Getting content in and out of OpenACS - webDAV

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Posted by Dave Bauer on
webDAV http://www.webdav.org is an HTTP extension to allow content creation and editing via methods other than a textarea.

What is interesting about hooking webDAV up to the OpenACS database is the ability to manage content in different packages in a consistent manner. For example, file-storage is an ideal application for webDAV, because it already mimics a filesystem. Another application would be photo-album where photos could be added via webDAV. A more fanciful application would be webDAV upload of a presentation into the wimpypoint package that could reformat the presentation for the web.

Another very usefull application is allowing web designers access to upload adp templates without needing shell access to the web server.

There is (was?) an effort to build a consistent rich user interface for Open Source CMS products using Mozilla and XUL that used webDAV to access content: http://www.oscom.org/projects/twingle

Besides all these, most content management systems support webDAV so its an interesting bulllet point on the feature list.