Thanks for the suggestion Weston, I had no idea WebDAV allowed programmatic traversal of remote content. That's great to know!
I wonder at the value of depending on WebDAV to solve our problem though. Our current reasons to switch to HTTP is that HTTP is ubiquitous-- often already available at institutions, usually requires no additional training to make something available, and has no firewall/security concerns. I wonder if WebDAV still gives us those benefits. Troy On 11/05/2010 02:45 PM, Weston Ruter wrote: > What about using WebDAV for HTTP? It supports directory listings (i.e. > collections). > > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Troy A. Griffitts <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > 3) The TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGY used to enable this over the Internet. > > We chose FTP because it was more practical. It is very difficult to > implement the programmatic traversal of a directory and file hierarchy > over HTTP. Apache and IIS all spew out different html for directory > listings. > > Now having said this, Nic Carter submitted the first pass at this which > works for our apache server (and likely many apache servers which spew > out the vanilla html index page like here: > http://crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/ > > So, HTTP is currently possible in the engine and if we get push back > from publishers or find users not able to use FTP due to firewall > restrictions, we plan to fully support HTTP moving forward. We simply > need to break out our directory parsing code and make it work well with > a few of the more mainstream httpd services like Apache and IIS. > > > > -- > Weston Ruter > http://weston.ruter.net/ > @westonruter <http://twitter.com/westonruter> - Google Profile > <http://www.google.com/profiles/WestonRuter#about> > > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
