[PhillyOnRails] Need help connecting to WEBDAV

[Walter Lee Davis <waltd@wdstudio.com>]

I am trying to use the new Bingo service from TextDrive to serve as a 
gigantic repository of files, with a secured Web front-end hosted on a 
regular TextDrive account. My front-end is written in PHP, and I spent 
quite a while yesterday fiddling with three or four PHP classes that 
would appear from their description to be capable of acting like a 
proxy between WEBDAV and an HTTP server.

None of them are able to connect to Bingo directly. The error messages 
are not very clear. Since I have no trouble using either a Web browser 
or the Mac Finder to connect to Bingo, I can't for the life of me 
imagine what the problem might be.

I am casting my net wider, hoping for a simple solution before I tell 
the client that he will have to spend way more for disk every month 
than this hybrid solution would have cost him.

Does anyone have any great ideas for this? At this point, I will take 
Ruby, Python, maybe even Perl -- just please dear g*d not Java!

Simple use-case:

Authenticated visitor browses through a web page, which shows a listing 
of available files (drawn from a database). This looks like a Finder or 
Windows Explorer window, and allows navigation into and out of 
directories. (This part is done, and working.)

* If the visitor wants a single file, he just clicks on its name, and 
the file downloads through the browser.

* If the visitor wants more than one file, she can add them to a 
"cart", then press a download control and receive a Zip archive 
containing all the selected files at the end.

(This part is also done, and works fine, as long as the files are to be 
found locally on the Web server.)

Here's where I'm really stuck:

When a request is made for a file from the Web front-end, I need to map 
that file request to the WEBDAV repository, silently replacing a local 
file request with an authenticated WEBDAV GET. My application can deal 
with the rest of the job -- it's just this little bit, which looks like 
it should be so easy, and is stubbornly NOT.

Thanks in advance,

Walter

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