From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Dired on DAV repositories? Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:33:01 +1100 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87fybfcqf6.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <86hcvy8uia.fsf@tuxteam.de> <86wt4sgp8r.fsf@tuxteam.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166316069 22026 80.91.229.10 (17 Dec 2006 00:41:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 00:41:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 17 01:41:08 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gvk5L-0007MC-Ss for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:41:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gvk5L-0005aD-Eu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Dec 2006 19:40:59 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xt-sjc-02!sn-xt-sjc-07!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CSuaoEtOXYGZMNupumiXsESAETU= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 38 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144044 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:39647 Archived-At: tomas@tuxteam.de (tomás zerolo) writes: > Ugh. Following up to self again. So much for bad style; sorry, folks. > > But I thought this might help others who like me are too blind to > find relevant docs. In the meantime I found out that: > > * there is a customisation group /Hypermedia/Url > (and further below, under "Url Hairy" a very nifty > "Url debug" custom variable, yay!). > > * there is a fine manual (usually installed at top > level by "make install", named --you guessed it-- > "url". > > So I have got some pointers now. > > What still bites me is: if I do C-x C-f "http://localhost/path/to/dav/", > url jumps in as a file handler (good!), strips-off the trailins slash > (not-so-good), talks to the server (good!), finds out that the server, > indeed, talks DAV (good!), gets redirected (301) to the slash-ended version > of the URL and thus reverts to plain HTTP (that's at least what the debug > message implies). Grrr. > > If any bells ring, let me please know. > Just wondering if you have checked out eldav, an emacs interface to webdav. While it might not provide the specific functionality you are after, it may provide some pointers. HTH Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au