Nice when something finally works

[mdlbear]

chaoswolf wants to transfer a file -- a class project -- home from her computer at school. The machine at school is an iMac: no removable media. It does have IE :-P and a web connection.

I've been working on some website operating software for a while now. So I dove back into the file-management CGI and got upload debugged. It's baling-wire and duct-tape at the moment, but it'll get the job done.

This whole project has been taking a whole lot longer than I expected -- it's now a year since my original target date -- so it's nice to see something actually working.

You can see it in action, sort of, at http://penguinsong.net/ ; the code's at http://penguinsong.org/org/projects/Combo/ .

Comments

HTTP PUT?

[aerowolf.livejournal.com]

HTTP PUT? Or WebDAV?

Re: HTTP PUT?

[mdlbear]

Your choice of HTTP POST (via the upload form) or PUT (which is WebDAV).

Point your favorite DAV client (I like Nautilus on Linux) at http://gc.thestarport.org/Ccgi/file.cgi/ -- the trailing slash is required if you want the file management view.

The cute thing is that, because it's a CGI, you can run it just about anywhere, even if you can't change the server config file.

Re: HTTP PUT?

[aerowolf.livejournal.com]

Ummm... Web Folders, on Windows 2000 (yes, I know, it's Winblows...) doesn't seem to like it. Not at all certain why?

Re: HTTP PUT?

[mdlbear]

Hmm; I'll have to look into that sometime. Could be because it doesn't support PROPFIND with depth=infinity (for security reasons). I believe some of the Apache WebDAV servers I've set up have the same problem.

Re: HTTP PUT?

[mdlbear]

No, that's not it. I tried setting up web folders (Windows 98) a server (inside the firewall) that's WebDAV on top. Worked fine, in spite of not supporting depth=infinity.

But, it wouldn't let me browse into a subdirectory that's a symlink (and hence invisible to PROPFIND) nor into the CGI (likewise invisible). So what it looks like is that Windows insists that it be able to follow a PROPFIND chain from the root down to the directory. One break in the chain and it doesn't believe you have a web folder. Nautilus and cadaver are not so picky.

May be worth persuing later.

Feedback or mailing lists?

[aerowolf.livejournal.com]

Is there any feedback mechanism or mailing list for penguinsong? I'd like to help put things together -- are you considering Sourceforge for it?

Re: Feedback or mailing lists?

[mdlbear]

Somewhere on the site it talks about sending mail to admin, but in fact the only person on the project at the moment is me (steve@thestarport.org).

SourceForge is definitely a possibility (I'm already a developer on http://cpia.sf.net ) but at the moment it's changing rapidly enough that it's more convenient to keep the CVS repository and the website(s) on the same LAN.