On 10/11/2010 11:56 PM, Dan Halbert wrote:
On 10/12/2010 2:41 AM, Glenn Linderman wrote:
But I have a situation where FTP access cannot be granted, and if it
could, it couldn't handle the job anyway, because of the way the web
site stores the data. But CGI programs can finesse those
differences, and so a CGI interface, likely a RESTful one, will be
developed in conjunction with HTTP Commander. What the web site does
under the covers really won't matter to the program, as long as it
emulates a tree-structured file system, and can supply directory
data, download "files", and upload "files". So the program could be
used as a replacement for those FTP programs, but its real power is
if the storage format on the Web site is unique.
This sounds like WebDAV to me. Are you familiar with that HTTP-based
protocol, which is widely used? It is usually implemented as a
webserver extension, though I see CGI-based implementations when I
search for << webdav cgi >>.
Regards,
Dan
Dan... Thanks for the response... but you were so fast, I didn't get to
bed yet, and I was hoping maybe I'd have some responses by tomorrow, or
the end of the week. But you got me doing some more searches....
It does sound a lot like WebDAV, but I was totally unaware of CGI-based
implementations... thanks for the hint.
But...
http://www.webdav.org/projects/ looks like a nice collection of links,
but those I thought worth clicking on were broken...
Bumped into http://intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/WebDav which talks about
Atom, a competitive? protocol? That sounds more CGI-ish? WebDAV sounds
like it has a lot of features I won't need.
Found http://code.google.com/p/pywebdav/ a Python implementation of
WebDAV protocols... not clear that it is a Web Server, though, but seems
to be a standalone WebDAV server for emebedding in applications.
I see TotalCommander has a WebDAV plugin, which would seem to take care
of client issues, but I don't think TotalCommander is open source (nor
written in Python for easy tweaking). The price is reasonable, though,
though an open source or Python client, and one that would work on a Mac
would be preferred (I only have two Mac users at present, though, so
they could be forced through an upload form, at least for a while, but
this is an issue for TotalCommander).
Will attempt to find and read the WebDAV spec after I get some sleep.
I'm still open for suggestions, though, as none of this is immediately
obviously the perfect, complete solution... with WebDAV, I'd have to
have an implementation that works via CGI and tweak it, so there would
be several learning curves: the WebDAV spec, the client, the finding and
tweaking of the server code. Plus, I wouldn't gain much experience with
PyQt if I use TotalCommander for the client.
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