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

[Giuseppe Castagno]

Hi all,

On 07/21/2016 08:51 AM, Giuseppe Castagno wrote:
....
>
> 1) Add OPTIONS method
> ==================
> For OPTIONS method specification, please see:
> <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-4.3.7>
> for general details.
> <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4918>
> where the use of OPTIONS method is detailed for WebDAV.
>
> The reason to implement this method, is to better detect if a URL
> resource is a simple Web resource or if it's WebDAV. In this latter case
> detect what methods it supports and what DAV class or classes it
> implements.
> In case of Web accessing (that is, not WebDAV) It should enhance a
> little the performance, by removing the bunch of PROPFIND method LO
> sends on Web resource.
>
> I've been working on this for a few months now, it seems to works well,
> I think it's ripe for inclusion in main codebase.

I opened a bug to act as anchor for the OPTIONS method implementation:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101094

In the next days I'll start to push the commits that make up the change, 
piping them through Gerrit first.

-- 
Kind Regards,
Giuseppe Castagno aka beppec56
Acca Esse http://www.acca-esse.eu
giuseppe.castagno at acca-esse.eu