See also WICG writable-files

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Important

• Tiki 6.x and trunk: Use a file gallery with archives (by putting "Maximum number of archives for each file:" to 0=unlimited, which is the default in 6.1 and 7). In this case, if a file is added to Tiki via WebDAV before using the web interface, a phantom archive file (0 byte copy of the file) is kept in the archive.
  • To reproduce:
    1. Fresh install
    2. Activate WebDAV
    3. Upload file via WebDAV (you will see file size is 0)
    4. Download file and try to edit it and you'll see it's corrupt
    • fixed in trunk and 7.x (6.x needs retesting)
• Upon activation, Tiki should check that your server meets server requirements for WebDAV

Other

• For files larger than the PHP configuration permits, WebDAV fails silently (not sure how to address)
  • Can Tiki send an error message to the WebDAV client?
    • Related to: File Gallery: quiet upload failures because error message is in a hidden iframe
• 5.0 alpha: using Firefox plugin, I am able to open folder but I don't see any content and I can't drag & drop any content into it.
  • Please retest
• doc.tiki.org/WebDAV states that OpenOffice.org doesn't seem to work with any version of WebDAV - neither OOo 3.x, 2.x or 1.x, even if you select that OOo uses its own file dialogues, from Tools > Options > General
  • Please retest

Goodsync

Goodsync is a nifty file synchronisation/backup application. It supports WebDAV but it can't connect to Tiki...

Basic authentication requested by server demo.tiki.org: Apache
DAV server: Apache
----- 13/01/2012 3:30:28 AM: Job 'webdavdocs': ANALYSIS started by User on computer 'ACER5552' (GoodSync 8.9.4.6 on Windows 7) -----
webdavdocs: ~marclaporte\Downloads\bad-behavior\bad-behavior (C:\Users\marclaporte\Downloads\bad-behavior\bad-behavior) <-> http://demo.tiki.org/trunk/tiki-webdav.php/File Galleries [cookies] [DirectDest], SavePrevVers, CleanupPrevVers=30d, TmpDest, EstReq, CopyLocked, FileLinksDrill, CaseSens, Reconnect=3, ChangeLimit=10
Exclude Hidden, Exclude System, Exclude licens*.rfo|cache.rfo|mru.rfo|mpp*.rfo|RoboForm Online Account.rfp|/System Volume Information|Thumbs.db|.DS_Store|name *._gstmp 
Left: Reading State File C:\Users\marclaporte\Downloads\bad-behavior\bad-behavior\_gsdata_\_file_state._gs
Left: State file does not exist: C:\Users\marclaporte\Downloads\bad-behavior\bad-behavior\_gsdata_\_file_state._gs
Left: No State File found, New State will be built
Left: Files: 16 (excluded 0). Folders: 0 (excluded 0). C: NTFS, Free: 445 GB, Total: 583 GB
Right: Reading State File http://demo.tiki.org/trunk/tiki-webdav.php/File Galleries/_gsdata_/_file_state._gs
Error analyzing http://demo.tiki.org/trunk/tiki-webdav.php/File Galleries: Cannot determine state file status: Server says: Forbidden (status code 403)

Questions

• Can Tiki (or via .htaccess) detect the webdav client and automatically redirect to tiki-webdav.php?
  • an example from Tine
• How can we map the remote drive?
• What is the maximum file size?
• Is concurrent editing fully tested? (if user B & A try to edit the same document)
• The web interface permits file locking. Does this also work via WebDAV?
  • Can WebDAV uploads be resumed, in case of loss of connection or time-out?
• Can we delete everything related to old implementation? (it seems that it did things that the new one doesn't yet so maybe they should translate into a series of wishes?)
  • Old implementation in Tiki (as a mod): http://doc.tiki.org/Mod+TikiDav
  • http://tiki.org/TikiDavDev

Feature request

• 8.x: A option for a link "open in WebDAV" in each wiki page
  • This will be useful for translators needed to open wiki pages in their word processor to take advantage of their translation memory.

8.x

• 8.2: On certain servers (relate to fileinfo?) when first upload is via CyberDuck or BitKinex, the mime type is often wrong. This leads to (in WebODF is activated) to offer to "edit" Excel files (by right clicking wrench), but then gives an error: ""
  • Similarly, if you upload an .svg via WebDAV, or create one via SVG edit, you'll have a similar issue
    • But if you first upload via web interface, and after use WebDAV, things are OK
• Using 8.x, Nautilus on Ubuntu 11.10
  • there is a ghost "File Galleries" directory. Two are shown in Nautilus, one is the real one and the other one gives this error when I click to explore its contents: Could not find "dav://admin@.../tiki-webdav.php/Wiki%20Pages".
  • The progress bar in the File Operations window doesn't update

WebDAV libs in PHP

• http://ezcomponents.org/docs/api/latest/introduction_Webdav.html
• http://code.google.com/p/sabredav/ (PHP) also CalDAV and CardDAV
  • http://www.phpriot.com/articles/web-dav-with-php/
• http://www.davical.org/ (PostgreSQL & PHP)
• http://ajaxplorer.info/plugins/access/webdav/

Related

• File Gallery
• CMIS
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:External_editors
• https://cyrusimap.org/imap/download/installation/http/webdav.html
• https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-webdav
• https://k9mail.github.io/documentation/accounts/incoming_webdav.html