[SAC] WebDAV for download.osgeo.org

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Mon Dec 22 14:05:50 EST 2008


Howard Butler wrote:
> All,
> 
> After Martin's LDAP work and migrating the GeoTools project to OSGeo, we 
> now have the ability to do LDAP-enabled WebDAV on the TelaScience 
> blades.  This means that once configured, people can connect to 
> download.osgeo.org and place or change files with a WebDAV client.  I 
> was wondering if there would be support for making all of the download 
> directories WebDAV-enabled, giving each directory access by its svn LDAP 
> group.
> 
> The biggest advantage of this is removing the need for SSH access for 
> most folks, as I think the biggest demand for shell access is simply to 
> copy files to the machine.  If there is general support for such an 
> approach, I will make it happen and document it.

Howard,

My opinion is that WebDAV support should be setup for projects on the download
server on an as-needed basis with the processing of adding it well documented
in the download server page in the wiki.

I don't anticipate it being helpful for most projects.

Best regards,
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