Forum OpenACS Development: ANN: nsDAV

Posted by Talli Somekh on 03/26/03 06:13 AM

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

2: update (response to 1)

Posted by Todd Gillespie on 04/16/03 02:22 AM

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.

3: Re: update (response to 2)

Posted by M Butcher on 04/22/03 10:07 PM

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

4: Re: ANN: nsDAV - WebDAV for AOLserver (response to 1)

Posted by Talli Somekh on 04/22/03 10:34 PM

Sorry, should have mentioned that the demo has moved: http://66.250.57.133/dav/

talli

5: Re: ANN: nsDAV - WebDAV for AOLserver (response to 4)

Posted by Bart Teeuwisse on 04/22/03 11:12 PM

Talli,

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

/Bart

6: Re: ANN: nsDAV - WebDAV for AOLserver (response to 1)

Posted by Talli Somekh on 04/22/03 11:21 PM

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

7: Re: ANN: nsDAV - WebDAV for AOLserver (response to 6)

Posted by Bart Teeuwisse on 04/22/03 11:29 PM

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

8: Re: ANN: nsDAV - WebDAV for AOLserver (response to 1)

Posted by C. R. Oldham on 04/22/03 11:31 PM

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.

10: Re: ANN: nsDAV - WebDAV for AOLserver (response to 8)

Posted by Bruno Mattarollo on 04/23/03 12:13 AM

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 ;)

9: Re: ANN: nsDAV - WebDAV for AOLserver (response to 1)

Posted by Talli Somekh on 04/22/03 11:38 PM

Bart, that's a good idea! I'll get the nsdav source into the webfolder.

talli

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