Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PEAR-DEV] PHP and WebDAV From: Stig S. Bakken (Stig.Bakken <email protected>)
Date: 07/26/01

yavo wrote:
>
> > The immediately most useful stuff for PHP would be server functionality
> > in cooperation with mod_dav. The client part seems to be much easier to
> > implement. Both Rasmus and I fell off this project as you can see, so
> > if someone want to pick it up, that'd be awesome.
> >
> > - Stig
>
> If I'm not terribly mistaken WebDav requires some sort of a HTTP server to
> work.
>
> I started writing a HTTP::Server module recently. I wanted it so I could
> provide XMLPRC interface for Pear enabled sites. Any way the idea is to
> write a very basic HTTP server for PEAR (using the socket extension) and
> make it extendable so it would be easy inherit it and overwrite some methods
> and make it work as a proxy for XMLRPC. Maybe this could also be used for
> WebDav.
>
> For all those who are going to say that it's gona have lousy performance I
> know

WebDAV is just an extension to HTTP, so yes. In the the mod_dav
integration that was mentioned, PHP would simply be an embedded parser
where you can register callbacks for certain types of events. This is
an ambitious enough task IMHO, I would not recommend starting to
reimplement mod_dav in PHP. :-)

 - Stig 

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