Hi I'm arriving at the conclusion that a few of the things I'm trying to do in my application are basically pseudo webDAV type actions such as PROPFIND & PROPATCH, but currently all handled on the server side via Perl & PHP. I'm looking to see whether I could move to a proper webDAV type solution but reuse a lot of the work I've already done. Client side libraries seem to be reasonably prolific in a number of languages but server side implementations are a bit thin on the ground.
The mod_dav module seems to be a solution of kinds, though people seem to have lots of hassle getting it to operate alongside mod_perl (indeed my build of mod_dav as a shared object with mod_perl built statically prevented the server starting up properly). But the reason I'd rather not use mod_dav is that I want more control over how the properties get stored. Ideally I'd want some abstraction to the storage layer where I could try out different ideas (Berkeley DB, MySQL or whatever) to stash the properties (dead ones I guess), plus maybe lock and version information of resources The Jakarta Slide approach seems more akin to what I'm after with webDAV functionality as just a component, but for now I'd like to stick to something in Perl or maybe PHP. Frankly I'm surprised no one seems to have attempted a Perl server side webDAV implementation by now :-) Anybody out there tinkered with the possibilities of a mod_perl based webDAV server ? cheers Tim Fulcher
