- From: Andre John Mas <ajmas@newtradetech.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:45:29 -0500
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Brian Korver wrote: > > On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 12:56 PM, Andre John Mas wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I would like to know whether with webdav there is any provision >> to advertising the shares available on a given server? The idea, >> with the, conjunction of a technology such as Rendezvous, would >> be to list the servers with 'shares' in local area and then list >> the webdav resources being made available by the server. >> >> regards >> >> Andre > > > Ander, > > No, there isn't. It would be nice tho'. > If this indeed the case, maybe this is something that should be examined? Maybe a simple solution to this (note - two second analysis ;) would be an XML file at the root. The file would have a standard name, maybe something such as webdav.xml and would list the shares: <webdav version="x.x"> <description text="my shares"/> <shares> <share name="music" description="my music for you to discover" guest="yes"/> <share name="docs" description="development docs" guest="no"/> </shares> </webdav> The server would have the option of dynamically changing the published xml file depending on whether the file was request with a user name or without. With this in mind, any client should probably support a redirection to another URL which provides the data - this is in order to allow retrofitting of this functionality to existing servers, and maybe even indicating that the server has been moved? <webdav version="x.x"> <redirection path="/servlets/sharelist"/> </webdav> <webdav version="x.x"> <moved url="http://myserver/" message="server has been moved"/> </webdav> <webdav version="x.x"> <unavailable message="this server be taken out of service"/> </webdav> Although there is probably a lot that could be done, hopefully this should serve as a seed for future work? Andre
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