[Dav-linuxfs] Re: davfs, and http support

[Ryan M. <rpm...@st...>]

That is great news.  Redirection and cookies are all we need - really,
if absolutely necessary, just solid redirection support could work.  But
to make it as nice as possible, cookie support would be most useful. 
Unfortunately, I personally don't have much time to code on this, but I
will pass on your request to other Internet2/Middleware representatives.

As for how we would in, at least right now we are likely to have to
require the user to log into a central authentication server with a web
browser first, then the davfs connection should work.  Future plans
would be to simply use client certificates, so as you support SSL, you
can just require the full SSL handshake to take place, and just
authenticate yourself.  

	--Ryan

On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 17:28, Sung Kim wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks for your request. Actually we were considering about the supporting
> cookie in our filesystam. Also we recognized we have some interop problems 
> with a server which set some attributes using cookie.
> 
> So we will support cookie soon. Also you could help that part, if possible.
> 
> Thanks for your interest.
> 
> PS - How do you login to your server system using a davfs filesystem.
> 
> --
> Sung Kim <hu...@cs...>
> http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~hunkim
> 
>  "Dreams become reality!" 
> 
> On 10 Nov 2001, Ryan Muldoon wrote:
> 
> > I am rather interested in webDAV, and davfs looks like a really cool
> > project.  I admit, I just discovered it about five minutes ago, but I
> > have a quick question/request.  One of the big problems with most DAV
> > clients right now is that they don't fully support HTTP.  So, if an
> > institution has a initial sign-on system, DAV servers can't take
> > advantage of this, because DAV clients can't handle cookies or
> > redirects, which is fundamental to most initial sign-on systems.  I am
> > working on the Internet2/MACE Web-ISO standard, which is trying to
> > develop a secure standard method of performing initial sign-on. 
> > Obviously, we would like to make sure that we can incorporate DAV
> > servers in this security system.  Do you have any reccomendations of
> > either how to deal with this problem at our end, or do you plan on
> > trying to add support for auth-facilitating technologies in your
> > filesystem?  Any insight that you might have would be great.  Thanks for
> > your time.
> > 
> > 	--Ryan
> > 
> > 
> > 
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