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

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.