Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Reactivating oacs-dav with file-storage?

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6: Re: Reactivating oacs-dav with file-storage? (response to 4)
Posted by Frank Bergmann on 06/12/17 06:34 PM
Just to be complete here on this thread:

I've recevied email with comments about oacs-dav:

- From Dave: There was a thread in February: https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=5348430 recommending to use the repository on SourceForge.
- From Iuri: The OpenACS 5.4.1 version of oacs-dav worked better for im.

@Gustaf: The funny thing is that file-storage has a dependency on oacs-dav, so it needs to be installed on basically every OpenACS system...

Cheers!
Frank

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7: Re: Reactivating oacs-dav with file-storage? (response to 6)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 06/13/17 05:13 AM
Would a JavaScript enhanced ui be acceptable? Windows webdav implementations vary greatly and are almost impossible to maintain support for.
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8: Re: Reactivating oacs-dav with file-storage? (response to 7)
Posted by Antonio Pisano on 06/13/17 12:21 PM
Another option might be to install some third party client/service that is more kind with the average webdav implementation. One example might be this https://cyberduck.io/ (no endorsement, just found by quick googling and tested briefly on our WIP, successfully)

One could also find something that has the same level of transparence of a "real folder", as e.g. davfs2 for linux http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/davfs2 (this also seems to work with our code)

On my windows 7 vitual machine I could no connect the native webdav client not even with my owncloud, so it is some task indeed!

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9: Re: Reactivating oacs-dav with file-storage? (response to 8)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 06/13/17 12:56 PM
restricting clients is certainly an option.
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10: Re: Reactivating oacs-dav with file-storage? (response to 8)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 06/13/17 01:20 PM
Webdrive https://southrivertech.com/products/webdrive/ has historcally worked with oacs-dav on Windows, that might be an option as well. I haven't tested other clients.

Another thing we did was setup poatgresql based SFTP authorization from the openacs database with an external file storage location for the content repository and a trigger to add items to the database. You'd have to explore the security implications of that a bit.