[Zope] Emacs and WebDav (was Re: WYSIWYG HTML Editors and Zope?)

[Chris Humphries]

xml-rpc would be nice also :)



ra@burningman.com wrote:

>> Alastair Burt <burt@dfki.de> writes:
>>
>>> Chris Withers <chrisw@nipltd.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> PS: Anyone done a WebDAV thingy for EMACS yet?
>>>>
>>> William Perry, who wrote the w3 browser, sent me some alpha code
>>> that makes Emacs talk WebDAV natively but I have not really tried it
>>> in anger yet.
>>>
>>> It should be fairly easy to get Emacs to use cadaver to read and
>>> write files. But what functionality would it bring you over ftp?
>>> Locking?
>>
> 
> 
> Well, for one, it would simplify security... WebDav happens on a single 
> port, so is easier to allow through firewalls and to tunnel when necessary.
> 
> Also, although I'm not sure about this, it seems as though WebDav might 
> be able to play well with Version objects better than FTP.  It'd be nice 
> to be able to use Emacs to edit within a version.  There is a 
> VersionFTPServer hack, and a clever one at that, but you have to set up 
> a different port for each version that you want to expose, and it hasn't 
> been updated since Zope 2.2.
> 
> -r
> 
> 
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