Hi all,

I'm wondering what is the status of any DAV server projects people are
working on for AOLServer. I'm aware of the mod_dav port that Musea is
working on, and I've seen mention here of an nsdav from the AOL folks
based on Dossy's work, but as far as I can tell Musea's work is
restricted to a filesystem back end provider and I've been unable to
find any released code for Dossy/Nathan's nsdav.

As a result of this, I've been playing with some ideas for implementing
a DAV server myself, and have got to the point where I need to know if
it's better to carry on on my own or try and find an existing project
that wants some help in getting to a final product.

What I have so far is a simple read-only server implemented in TCL
(using tDOM for all XML related stuff). It is specifically designed to
allow multiple back end providers to be used. The only back end I
currently have implemented attaches to the filesystem, although I have
previously had an additional provider that served the contents of a
zipfile as a DAV filesystem. It's minimal, but works for browsing the
filesystem and viewing files with both cadaver and the MacOS X DAV
client.

The whole thing is so far only ~200 lines of TCL, and although it's
pretty quick and nasty I believe my approach is worth pursuing if
nothing else is being actively developed.


So - what's happening in the world of DAV? Who is working on it, what approach are you using, and would it be worth pooling resources to get something completed?

cheers

Russell


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