Re: WebDav support for NSURLHandle

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 10 Jun 2007, at 09:55, Helge Hess wrote:

> 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.

When the current code in svn implements a usable subset of the new  
framework (written by me and based mostly on the existing GNUstep  
code but informed somehwat by mySTEP) , but the current stable  
release is a skeleton only.

It would be nice if someone volunteered to complete the  
implementation (though support for SSL and SOCKS  in NSStream on unix  
and ms-windows is really a prerequisite for a full implementation).

So, until that is done, the older (NSURLHandle) API is much more  
complete (https support, proxying, connection keepalive etc).