mod_python web-dav management system

[grahamd at dscpl.com.au]

Kyler Laird wrote:
> Damjan <gdamjan at gmail.com> writes:
>
> >Now I've been thinking that it might be pretty easy to implement a
> >authorization layer with mod_python (but living handling of the web-dav
> >protocol to apache)... So, has anyone already done something similar?
>
> Yup.  I'm in the process.  I'm using mod_python to do LDAP
> authentication of WebDAV requests.

If original poster needs more in depth help on how to set up an
appropriate authhandler for mod_python for the purpose, might
suggest they get onto the mod_python mailing list and see help
there. Details of mailing list on mod_python web site.

> Now I just need to get a FUSE filesystem working and I should
> be able to cobble together a "simple" DAV server...
>
> It would be *so* much cleaner to have a total Python-based
> solution (that could run as root) so I periodically check on
> progress in this area.  I have high hopes for Twisted's DAV
> server but I'm told it's not ready for use yet.  In another
> thread I just learned about PanDAV
> 	http://ivoras.sharanet.org/projects/pandav.html
> but I haven't installed it yet.

What about if there existed a mod_dav_python for Apache. Would
that be of interest. The idea is that the module could bridge the
C API hooks and structures of mod_dav module to Python code.
This means the benefit from all the hard work that has been put
into the Apache mod_dav module and only need to implement
stuff that handles the individual operations if you want to implement
some sort of custom DAV server. If of interest you might look at
comments about it at:

  http://www.modpython.org/pipermail/mod_python/2006-April/020890.html
  http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MODPYTHON-165

Graham