"Pill, Juergen" wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Does someone know if under Linux there is something similar to WebDrive for
> Windows?
>
> WebDrive for Windows maps a WebDav server to a Windows drive letter. All
> programs that can access the file system, can now access the WebDav server
> too (in a transparent way).
>
> Does someone know a tool, which allows a WebDav server to be mapped into the
> Linux (or any other UNIX) file system?
I don't know of anything like that, but I suspect it wouldn't be
terribly difficult to implement (though to make it really reliable and
fast would be significantly harder).
There IS an 'httpfs' for linux. I believe it uses one of the modules
that allow writing filesystems in userspace (essentially you have a
generic user-space fs module. The userspace code implements the actual
filesystem. Such things exist for (that I've heard of. I haven't used
any of them and couldn't name them) at least C, perl (That one is called
perlfs. Some people just don't know when to stop...), and java (for the
userspace code).
The httpfs that I've heard of (never looked closely at it, though) is
just http, not webdav (it probably predates webdav, and I doubt it'd be
usable directly with current kernels), but it might be a useful starting
point.
Using the java one and slide's webdav client libraries should prove a
simple method for implementing this (though it may not be terribly
reliable), if you don't mind actually writing some code.
Michael
