WebDAVTools

• webdavtools.rubyforge.org

• rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/webdavtools-general

DESCRIPTION:

WebDAVTools is a WebDAV client written in Ruby for managing content on webservers that support the WebDAV extensions.

Requirements

The command line utility curl installed. Available from curl.haxx.se/ or on linux:

sudo apt-get install curl

LIRBRARY SYNOPSIS:

require 'rubygems'
require 'webdavtools'

# Print url of all files in webdav folder recursively
# with basic tree walking

url = 'http://test.webdav.org/dav/'
WebDAV.find(url, :recursive => true) do |item|
  puts item.href
end

COMMAND LINE UTILITES:

WebDAVTools includes the command line utility ‘wdav’. It should be somewhat familiar to unix users. By using commands like ‘wdav cd url’ to set current working url, ‘wdav ls’ to list files and ‘wdav pwd’ to print current working url, users can access files, folders and their properties on webdav servers.

The only authentication method supported at the method is by reading usernames and passwords from a file named ~/.netrc. If username is missing, ‘wdav’ will print out instructions for what to add to the .netrc file.

COMMAND LINE SYNOPSIS:

>wdav cd http://test.webdav.org/dav/
http://test.webdav.org/dav/
>wdav ls
images/
index.html
>wdav pwd
http://test.webdav.org/dav/

INSTALL:

[sudo] gem install webdavtools

or

git clone git://github.com/thomasfl/webdavtools.git
cd webdavtools
gem build Rakefile
sudo gem install webdavtools-x.x.x.gem

Background:

There has been posted a few examples on the web of how to make a WebDAV client. The problem is that they all seem to support only one type of username and password authentication. WebDAVTools instead uses the command line tool ‘curl’ to do all the authentication and networking. To avoid handling authentication all togheter, curl are told to look up all usernames and passwords are in a file named ~/.netrc.