Re: Dired on DAV repositories?

[Tim X]

tomas@tuxteam.de (tomás zerolo) writes:

> Ugh. Following up to self again. So much for bad style; sorry, folks.
>
> But I thought this might help others who like me are too blind to
> find relevant docs. In the meantime I found out that:
>
>   * there is a customisation group /Hypermedia/Url
>     (and further below, under "Url Hairy" a very nifty
>     "Url debug" custom variable, yay!).
>
>   * there is a fine manual (usually installed at top
>     level by "make install", named --you guessed it--
>     "url".
>
> So I have got some pointers now.
>
> What still bites me is: if I do C-x C-f "http://localhost/path/to/dav/";,
> url jumps in as a file handler (good!), strips-off the trailins slash
> (not-so-good), talks to the server (good!), finds out that the server,
> indeed, talks DAV (good!), gets redirected (301) to the slash-ended version
> of the URL and thus reverts to plain HTTP (that's at least what the debug
> message implies). Grrr.
>
> If any bells ring, let me please know.
>

Just wondering if you have checked out eldav, an emacs interface to
webdav. While it might not provide the specific functionality you are
after, it may provide some pointers.

HTH

Tim


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