From: Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@...>
Date: 2005-09-22T15:54:18+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] FuseFS-0.3

If I remember correctly, WEBDav support is built into windows now ...

I haven't tested it, but I believe that you get all of the webdav
functionality for windows through explorer, not a command prompt ...

But, that's better than nothing... I'll have to do a bit of research.

j.

On 9/21/05, Brian Palmer <ruby@brian.pocketmartiansoftware.com> wrote:
> I've been discussing with Greg ways to make FuseFS cross-platform
> (I've been posting as greasygreasy on Redhanded, BTW).
>
> I think I have a pretty good solution I've worked up using a modified
> version of Tatsuki Sugiura's WebDAV Servlet for WEBRick (http://
> redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/
> webrickWebdavHandlerSafelyExtractedFromTheWild.html).  Reading works
> perfectly, writing is good on Windows but I need to implement locking
> in Sugiura's code before OS X (and maybe linux?) will allow writing.
>
> On OS X WebDAV support is always available and acts just like a
> normal mounted filesystem.  I believe that on Linux one can use
> WebDAV using davfs (http://dav.sourceforge.net/), which seems to come
> with quite a few distros.  Windows has built-in support for WebDAV as
> well, but I've just discovered that it only seems to allow dragging
> files in and out of folders, not editing-in-place or from the command
> line.  Do those with more Windows experience know, is there any way
> to have a more natural WebDAV mount on Windows like on the other
> OS's?  Or am I barking up the wrong tree with this solution?  What
> would you folks use instead?  CIFS or SMB has been suggested to me,
> and my original idea was an NFS server, both well supported cross-
> platform, but I know of no ruby library for writing either.
>
> -- Brian Palmer
>


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Jeff Wood