WebDAV: separate library?

[ChristianGruen]

With version 12, WebDAV support was removed from the standard distributions of BaseX, due to security concerns with regard to the outdated Milton WebDAV library.

As it is still needed in practice, mostly in projects that include oXygen, we could provide its functionality via a separate JAR file.

Comments are welcome.

[Josef-Thorne-A]

This would be highly desirable for my use case. I need some non-technical users to be able to access and edit files in the database without using a full-fledged client.

In a similar fashion I have been working on a (very basic) FUSE file system on top of the C API for BaseX to allow editing documents in the database as XML. But this is pretty hacky. I did see that there were papers published on writing a FUSE file system but no source code appeared available. Once it’s more polished I’ll share it.

[mingarao]

Bonjour,

We also make an intensive use of the webDAV access for researchers to be able to edit their XML sources by themselves

So 👍 to the WebDAV library !