Re: Re: PHP and WebDAV

From: Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 21:53:40 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: PHP and WebDAV
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yavo wrote: > > > The immediately most useful stuff for PHP would be server functionality > > in cooperation with mod_dav. The client part seems to be much easier to > > implement. Both Rasmus and I fell off this project as you can see, so > > if someone want to pick it up, that'd be awesome. > > > > - Stig > > If I'm not terribly mistaken WebDav requires some sort of a HTTP server to > work. > > I started writing a HTTP::Server module recently. I wanted it so I could > provide XMLPRC interface for Pear enabled sites. Any way the idea is to > write a very basic HTTP server for PEAR (using the socket extension) and > make it extendable so it would be easy inherit it and overwrite some methods > and make it work as a proxy for XMLRPC. Maybe this could also be used for > WebDav. > > For all those who are going to say that it's gona have lousy performance I > know WebDAV is just an extension to HTTP, so yes. In the the mod_dav integration that was mentioned, PHP would simply be an embedded parser where you can register callbacks for certain types of events. This is an ambitious enough task IMHO, I would not recommend starting to reimplement mod_dav in PHP. :-) - Stig

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