Re: WebDav support for NSURLHandle

[Helge Hess]

On Jun 10, 2007, at 02:37, Philippe Roussel wrote:
> I am trying to add iCalendar support to SimpleAgenda and for it to be
> really useful I would like to add WebDAV support as well.

Nice :-)

> With NSURLHandle, I can read a file over http but it would be nice  
> to be
> able to write it, on servers supporting WebDAV.

A PUT? PUT(/DELETE) is not related to WebDAV BTW, its specified in  
plain HTTP. WebDAV is needed for stuff like listing the contents of a  
collection (PROPFIND).

> Hence my question : is there already some code to add WebDAV  
> support to
> NSURLHandle (if it's at all possible, maybe NSURLHandle can't handle
> it, I don't really know) ?

NSURLHandle is deprecated in Cocoa, so I guess its a bad idea to base  
work on it:
  http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ 
Foundation/Classes/NSURLHandle_Class/Reference/Reference.html

Not sure whether GNUstep already support the new URL loading  
framework, but I think someone wrote it does.

> Or am I smoking crack and completely misundertood the whole calendar
> sharing/publishing system ?

Uhm, no. There are two approaches, the simple and widely deployed one  
where a whole calendar is stored in a single iCalendar resource (iCal- 
over-HTTP). The other one is CalDAV or GroupDAV, where each event/ 
task is stored in its own HTTP resource.

Greets,
  Helge
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