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#353 How about adding in WEDAV client /and/or server

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2014-07-25
2013-03-03
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Originally created by: jgbrow... (code.google.com)@gmail.com

Request for new feature.

Add a WEBDAV client to allow mapping a web drive.

Add a WEBDAV server to allow access to a drive.

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  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2014-07-12

    Originally posted by: amsgo... (code.google.com)@gmail.com

    a must have feature these days

     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2014-07-17

    Originally posted by: stefansc...@googlemail.com

    I've been dabbling with webdav via lighttpd. Accessing it with linux clients (cadaver, thunar) worked ok, but from Windows writing files doesn't work. Windows behaves the same way when running lighttpd on a PC though, so maybe lighttpds webdav support is just incomplete.

    I guess I'll try apache or nginx next (if they compile at all).

     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2014-07-17

    Originally posted by: amsgo... (code.google.com)@gmail.com

    I read about some issues on Windows too. It seems that native Windows support for WebDav is not so stable as expected.

     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2014-07-18

    Originally posted by: stefansc...@googlemail.com

    Got apache to run, but it's even worse. Windows won't even read files with it (Linux is fine again). Maybe there's actually something wrong with my windows installation or the network. I need to take a look at the traffic.

    Google doesn't bring up a whole lot about issues with Windows (other than that the default file size limit is 50MB, but that can be fixed with a registry tweak).

     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2014-07-25

    Originally posted by: stefansc...@googlemail.com

    Ok, figured out what broke reading from windows. A type conversation got messed when cross compiling, which caused apache to report bad file sizes. The other clients I tried don't check the size values so they weren't affected.

    Attached is an opk package with apache. It comes with an init script so that the server will be launched at boot time and a really basic setup page (Services->Apache).

    Things to keep in mind.
    I'd suggest to only make the server accessible on a LAN. That's no authentication, although it could be enabled in the apache config. It also runs as root/admin to keep things simple, but that's usually a big no no.

    Windows copy dialogs don't show the progress properly. They sit at 0 or ~99 percent until the operation finishes.

    I've had interrupted file transfers leave locked files behind.

    Throughput is about 5 MB/s.

    Memory usage seems to get quite high. I haven't checked yet how it behaves with another memory hog like transmission installed too.

     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2014-07-25

    Originally posted by: amsgo... (code.google.com)@gmail.com

    Good news...

    If you need some help, let me know. I can do some tests as I still have my wlx but I am not using it.

     

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