[Python-Dev] Re: WebDAV in python 2.2? (original) (raw)

Greg Stein gstein@lyra.org
Fri, 3 Aug 2001 12:12:54 -0700

On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 08:54:17AM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> GvR also wondered if Python 2.2 should support DAV ("That's another > open protocol that Python could easily support out of the box.") and > /F agreed, but Greg Stein, the DAV expert and champion on python-dev, > remained silent.

Greg, I now know where you were. Since you're back, any comments?

I saw that thread while I was deleting over 200,000 duplicate messages from my inbox :-( ... I just haven't got to that part of my "real" inbox yet.

My intent was to write a short PEP because there would be a couple modules to add to the lib:

  1. httpauth -- subclasses httplib.HTTPConnection to add authenticated connections. Initially using the Basic auth method, but it could also be expanded to Digest (and others)

  2. davlib -- my existing module. needs a couple items of work: allow alternate/fallback XML parsers (it uses Expat + qp_xml right now), and use the authenticated HTTP connections.

That is at least a start on what needs to happen. We can flesh it out with a PEP or by checking in the modules. (Moshe and I talked about httpauth a bit at the last Python Conference; I know he is interested in working on something like that)

I'm not sure how we normally write tests for network-based modules, but it shouldn't be too hard to have them run against test.webdav.org.

Doc should be pretty straight-forward.

Cheers, -g

-- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/