Thanks for confirming my understanding. I'm hoping to have WebDAV running within my webapp because I already manage user authentication in Java and would like to apply the same container-managed security my WebDAV implementation. I'm actually surprised not to find a simple webdav servlet impementation independent of application server platform or framework (slide).
Alon On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 22:46:05 -0700, James Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alon, > > I can't think of any way to get Slide to do this (maybe someone else > can, though). The TxFile Store implementation uses xml files to store > the structure of the repository, so I don't see any way to get this to > use an existing structure in the filesystem. > > You could write a really Store implementation that either ignores > metadata or stores it in some sort of .meta file. > > You might also look into using Apache HTTP Server's mod_dav module. It > should do what you need and is very cross-platform. > > -James > > > > alon salant wrote: > > I've been reading the slide docs, have set up the slide server and > > have WebDAV working for accessing files in slide. > > > > I have been unable to definitively answer the following question. > > Hopefully someone on this list can answer it. > > > > Can the slide WebDAV servlet be configured to serve an existing > > directory on the filesystem? > > > > What I have found is that you can set up a slide filestore and store > > files in it, but you cannot create a slide filestore from an existing > > filesystem directory. Slide needs to store all kinds of metadata to do > > its job and the webdav servlet can only serve a slide filestore. Is > > this right? > > > > If not, what would I need to do to get the slide webdav servlet > > serving say, /home/alon/public_html/, where I have a bunch of > > directories and files in that location already? I understand that a > > limited set of the WebDAV protocol will be supported. > > > > I've also looked at the tomcat webdav servlet but it has several > > issues. First, it can only serve the webapp root in which it is > > loaded. It is also dependent on many tomcat core classes. I would like > > to be able to deploy on a range of application servers. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Alon > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
