I am in a situation where I need to access (read) files on a webdav server from my Zope application. There's a lot written about accessing Zope with Webdav but I can't find anything useful about using Zope to access other webdav servers (except for a mention about webdav/client.py - but it's not obvious!). In particular, the webdav/web folder server is Win2000/IIS 5.0 and Zope is installed on a Linux box. Can anyone give me some hints on the best approach?

http://www.lyra.org/greg/python/ Look for dav-lib. With this, you can do WebDAV things from an External Method. As for a more elegant solution, I don't know of any WebDAV client products, but maybe you can "mount" an external WebDAV source in your Zope with DavFS and LocalFS. A straight-up product to do this would be a neat project. http://zope.org/Members/vernier/Debian/DavFS/view --jcc