WebDAV ucb provider: neon, serf, ideas...

[Giuseppe Castagno]

On 07/25/2016 03:56 PM, Michael Stahl wrote:
> On 21.07.2016 08:51, Giuseppe Castagno wrote:
>
>> 4) Curl for WebDAV as well?
>> ===========================
>> 4) the idea came up reading
>> <http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Build-WebDAV-neon-serf-differences-among-the-two-tp4157134p4157624.html>.
>>
>> I'd like to spend some time to see about libcurl doing the work neon
>> does, by implementing first OPTIONS, HEAD GET methods, the one needed
>> for standard web access.
>> The (very brave and challenging) idea is to substitute neon with libcurl
>> in the future.
>>         From LO code POV, libcurl is very similar to serf: an external
>> library that performs the bare needs of 'http://' protocol.
>> So some idea on how to use libcurl stem out from both the serf software
>> connection structure in ucb provider, and the way  libcurl is used in
>> libcmis.
>> Obviously, in this case, the unit tests for WebDAV will follow the road
>> used in libcmis for libcurl.
>>
>> Need some advice on this: is it worth the effort? In terms of license,
>> other libs libcurl uses, etc...
...
>
> that's an awesome idea with a lot of potential for simplifying things,
> without introducing new problems since we already bundle curl, but also
> quite some work i'm afraid.  maybe the general structure and some code
> can be taken from the serf UCP, since it operates at a similar
> abstraction level being a HTTP library with no special DAV support?

that's what I have in mind: getting the overall structure of serf UCP, 
with the changes I made in neon UCP.

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Giuseppe Castagno
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