[PyQt] Python Commander in PyQt?

[Glenn Linderman]

  On 10/11/2010 11:56 PM, Dan Halbert wrote:
> On 10/12/2010 2:41 AM, Glenn Linderman wrote:
>> But I have a situation where FTP access cannot be granted, and if it 
>> could, it couldn't handle the job anyway, because of the way the web 
>> site stores the data.  But CGI programs can finesse those 
>> differences, and so a CGI interface, likely a RESTful one, will be 
>> developed in conjunction with HTTP Commander.  What the web site does 
>> under the covers really won't matter to the program, as long as it 
>> emulates a tree-structured file system, and can supply directory 
>> data, download "files", and upload "files".  So the program could be 
>> used as a replacement for those FTP programs, but its real power is 
>> if the storage format on the Web site is unique.
>>
> This sounds like WebDAV to me. Are you familiar with that HTTP-based 
> protocol, which is widely used? It is usually implemented as a 
> webserver extension, though I see CGI-based implementations when I 
> search for << webdav cgi >>.
>
> Regards,
> Dan

Dan... Thanks for the response... but you were so fast, I didn't get to 
bed yet, and I was hoping maybe I'd have some responses by tomorrow, or 
the end of the week.  But you got me doing some more searches....

It does sound a lot like WebDAV, but I was totally unaware of CGI-based 
implementations... thanks for the hint.

But...

http://www.webdav.org/projects/ looks like a nice collection of links, 
but those I thought worth clicking on were broken...

Bumped into http://intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/WebDav which talks about 
Atom, a competitive? protocol?  That sounds more CGI-ish?  WebDAV sounds 
like it has a lot of features I won't need.

Found http://code.google.com/p/pywebdav/ a Python implementation of 
WebDAV protocols... not clear that it is a Web Server, though, but seems 
to be a standalone WebDAV server for emebedding in applications.

I see TotalCommander has a WebDAV plugin, which would seem to take care 
of client issues, but I don't think TotalCommander is open source (nor 
written in Python for easy tweaking).  The price is reasonable, though, 
though an open source or Python client, and one that would work on a Mac 
would be preferred (I only have two Mac users at present, though, so 
they could be forced through an upload form, at least for a while, but 
this is an issue for TotalCommander).

Will attempt to find and read the WebDAV spec after I get some sleep.

I'm still open for suggestions, though, as none of this is immediately 
obviously the perfect, complete solution... with WebDAV, I'd have to 
have an implementation that works via CGI and tweak it, so there would 
be several learning curves: the WebDAV spec, the client, the finding and 
tweaking of the server code.  Plus, I wouldn't gain much experience with 
PyQt if I use TotalCommander for the client.
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