[Mono-list] Implementing WebDAV in XSP/mod_mono(_unix)

[Brady Anderson]

Chris,
I implemented a WebDAV server on IIS and in fact ran into some of the
problems you noted.  With IIS you have to go to the ISAPI level and then
implement a combination ISAPI filter and extension to get all the verbs
up to your service.  A lot of trial an error but it can be done.

Brady

>>> Chris Turchin <chris@turchin.net> 9/25/2003 1:02:54 PM >>>
Hi all,

a while back I considered/tried implementing a WebDAV server in ASP.NET
on IIS5
using IHTTPHandler and IHTTPModule interfaces. It seemed like a cool
idea, only
I got stopped pretty quick because IIS would not (although I said my
Handler accepted ALL VERBs) pass the requests (in particular I hung up
right
away on the OPTIONS command) on to my httphandler, for example:

========= Outbound Message =========
OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1
Host: d-6-ct-01
Connection: TE
TE: trailers, deflate, gzip, compress
User-Agent: UCI DAV Explorer/0.82 RPT-HTTPClient/0.3-3E
Translate: f
Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip, x-gzip, compress, x-compress


========= Inbound Message ========= HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server:
Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:45:20 GMT Connection: close MS-Author-Via:
DAV
Content-Length: 0 Accept-Ranges: none DASL: <DAV:sql> DAV: 1, 2 Public:
OPTIONS,
TRACE, GET, HEAD, DELETE, PUT, POST, COPY, MOVE, MKCOL, PROPFIND,
PROPPATCH,
LOCK, UNLOCK, SEARCH Allow: OPTIONS, TRACE, GET, HEAD, COPY, PROPFIND,
SEARCH,
LOCK, UNLOCK
Cache-Control: private

Though the request should have gone to my HTTPHandler, IIS wanted to
answer it
itself. :-(

Would my idea be conceivable in mod_mono or XSP? I have not tried it
yet because
my XSP setup is messed up currently (and my backend would not (yet) run
on
linux), but I might be more inspired if someone said "yeah, sure it
would
work...". :-)

Looking forward to your feedback!

Regards,
--chris


BTW: has anyone out there tried something like this on IIS? Could it be
I am
doing somthing wrong and it really would work? I know it would go in
ISAPI (or
have heard this...) but I am just barely keeping my head above water in
c# and
c++ would push me too far my into the deep end ;-)
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