[OpenAFS] AFS and WebDAV

[Leif Johansson]

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Mark Montague wrote:
| On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, John Rudd wrote:
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|>Has anyone set up a WebDAV server on top of AFS?  Especially if you're
|>then using that for a file sharing mechanism (like windows "web
|>folders", MacOS X "Connect" in Finder, etc.).  Do you have any thoughts
|>about how to make it work in a way that preserves user identity in the
|>access and such?
|
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| Yes, we're using mod_dav-1.0.3-1.3.6 on top of Apache 1.3.29 with
| cosign-1.1.3 to provide the authentication.  This combination
| has the potential to preserve the user identity, but we have not
| pursued this yet -- right now, our Apache server runs with a
| special AFS user identity and tokens are automatically renewed
| by a script we wrote.  Cosign will obtain AFS tokens for each
| specific authenticated user (and switch between them appropriately)
| but as I said we do not have this set up yet here.
|
| We restrict access to DAV to HTTPS only.
|
| We're not using DAV for filesharing, just for updating web pages
| on the server.  A variety of DAV clients are in use.
|

I am curious - have you found any problems with cookie-support in WebDAV
clients? I have tried similar setups with pubcookie but WebDAV clients
are not required to implement cookies which gets in the way of using
many WebISO mechanisms with webdav. Also redirects are tricky to get
right since you are typically editing text/plain and not text/html -
most redirection is done using meta-tags...

I'm interested in hearing more details about your setup.

	Cheers Leif
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