[OGo-Developer] FYI: linux davfs2 access to ogo projects

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

Hi,

I tried to get the linux davfs2 working with ogo, did a lot of testing and bug 
reporting. these bugs i stumbled across until now are fixed in cvs by the 
davfs developer. 

don't know whether you are interested, but one problem was that ogo omits 
trailing slashes for directory names. citing the davfs developer:

In HTTP/WebDAV it is a convention, that pathnames for
directories have a trailing slash, while pathnames for files
do not. But this is only a convention and there are
different opinions whether it is a requirement. The WebDAV
RFC requires it. davfs2 relied on this convention.

well, he fixed the problem, but maybe other webdav clients may face the same 
problem.

he also fixed the problem with how the <displayname> property is used in ogo, 
that I mentioned in the users@ list. now there is an option to disable its 
use. he disagrees with Helge on how <displayname> should be used:

citing him:
- WebDAV states that displayname "Provides a name for the
resource that is suitable for presentation to a user".
Except someone likes to confuse the user, this name must be
unique wihtin a container or directory. There is no need to
write this in any specification, it is obvious. The real
problem is: Some people will not treat it as a *name* but
misuse it for some arbitrary, application specific data.
They should define their own properties. WebDAV is open for
this.



kind regards
Sebastian