WebDAV Support

Server NGINX
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I’ve been trying to use nginx’s ngx_http_dav_module to synchronize
some data from my home machine, and have discovered that it doesn’t
support the PROPFIND method that’s required for my application to work.

Is anyone working on adding full webdav support to nginx? I’m very
interested in getting nginx to get full dav support so that I don’t
have to run apache in the background.

Thanks,
Max

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On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 16:03 -0500, Max Hawkins wrote:

I’ve been trying to use nginx’s ngx_http_dav_module to synchronize
some data from my home machine, and have discovered that it doesn’t
support the PROPFIND method that’s required for my application to work.

Is anyone working on adding full webdav support to nginx? I’m very
interested in getting nginx to get full dav support so that I don’t
have to run apache in the background.

http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpProxyModule

"
proxy_method
syntax: proxy_method [method]

default: None

context: http, server, location

Used to allow the proxying of additional HTTP methods.

Note: at this time, Nginx only appears to allow a single instance of
this directive and it only accepts a single argument (method) so it’s
not clear how useful this might be for proxying to things like
Subversion.

Example:

proxy_method PROPFIND;
"

HTH,
Cliff

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On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 04:03:34PM -0500, Max Hawkins wrote:

I’ve been trying to use nginx’s ngx_http_dav_module to synchronize
some data from my home machine, and have discovered that it doesn’t
support the PROPFIND method that’s required for my application to work.

Is anyone working on adding full webdav support to nginx? I’m very
interested in getting nginx to get full dav support so that I don’t
have to run apache in the background.

No, webdav support is limited by several method only.

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I’m very interested in getting nginx to get full dav support so that
I don’t have to run apache in the background.

the apache module isnt totally complete either ( see what happens when
you do an svn mv
via the apache webdav… o fun! ). of course, its more complete but
still.

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On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 09:19:58PM -0700, Cliff W. wrote:

Note: at this time, Nginx only appears to allow a single instance of
this directive and it only accepts a single argument (method) so it’s
not clear how useful this might be for proxying to things like
Subversion.

Example:

proxy_method PROPFIND;
"

No, proxy_method simply overrides a client original request method.