Hi all!
I'm Riccardo Tribbia from Italy for the University of Bergamo. I wish ask
you some question about the way to extend webdav client implementation in
gnome / nautilus, 'cause we (my team) are developing a system for a fully
secure outsourcing system using WebDAV (it's a research project).
We're using a WebDAV server implementation through Milton (java webdav
server) on an Apache Tomcat and works fine.
Now we would integrate a little WebDAV client in a real desktop environment
which users already use every day and 'cause our target system is Linux, for
now, the specific target is Nautilus - GNOME.
If I have understood a bit of the GNOME evolution, the software component
that make all webdav stuff is gvfs backend dav, isn't it?
And gvfs is the abstraction layer for all implemented protocols that offers
file system support, isn't it?
So the question is: Which way can we follow to extend this module?
The functionalities that our implementation has are:
-> after authorization request (webdav username+password) if the user select
a "Crypted folder" (in particular OverEncrypted folder) the server answers
with a "CHECKPIN" request (no webdav standard request, our implementation,
obviously).
So the extended module would prompt a popup to the user with PIN
request and after that the client have to react in consequence.
(wonderful is that this PIN can be saved in keyring for the entire
session.. :-) )
->PUT / COPY webdav commands would also encrypt/decrypt resources in article
specified way.
Have you any advice for us?
Or any specific documentation or link for this question?
Are we following the right way?
And last but phisically the most important: Which is the way to install a
single gvfs new module? Have we to recompile all gvfs lib? other package or
lib?
Sorry for my english and for our long questions,
any help would be appreciate.
Thanks a lot!
And our best compliments for the open-source high level work.
Riccardo Tribbia
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