Alex - I think you need to justify why OpenBD should implement this, and not use a specialized software/solution. Especially since it would be non-trivial techincally!
Regards, Hugo AlexS wrote on 2011-03-02: > Hi All, > > The idea of CFSMTP is very cool, which got me thinking where else > could OpenBD lend a hand. > > We produce a CF based CMS / Basic DMS and one of the most sought over > feature request has been we'd love to interact with the application as > if it was a file system. > > Picture being able to connect to your app as if it was a share drive > and drag and drop folders, now this could be achieved by a creating a > CFWEBDAV tag after all much of that can be implemented in pure CF > including the base authentication etc but with Windows 7 WEBDAV > support has become a bit problematic, you can see this through > projects like Alfresco which when i last used them were struggling > with Windows 7 support. Others have got around the issue by using a > desktop app e.g. Razuna. > > So how cool would it be if something like this was tied in > > http://freshmeat.net/projects/jlanserver/ > > Make your app appear to be an CIFS Server or FTP as well :) > > Hooks would need to be inplace so you could role your own > authentication mechanism > file system representation and permissioning > > WebDAV is cool if that was an easy first pass and the Java guys may > know a better library to plugin for the other stuff. > > Cheers > > Alex > > -- Hugo Ahlenius fraxinus (at-sign) oxel.net http://www.oxel.net -- official tag/function reference: http://openbd.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
