Re: [PhillyOnRails] Need help connecting to WEBDAV

[Freedom Dumlao <freedom@freedomdumlao.com>]

Have you considered using Amazon's S3 instead? There is already a  
good deal of Ruby work that has been done on this. It's not WEBDAV,  
but if your needs are primarily storage it's an excellent solution.

There is a good presentation on Ruby with AWS S3 here:
http://www.bestechvideos.com/2007/03/03/ruby-on-rails-aws-s3/

Freedom

On Mar 10, 2007, at 9:23 AM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:

> 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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