Re: Extending WebDAV featureset?

[Sidnei da Silva <sidnei awkly org>]

On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 12:39:13PM -0500, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote:
| > Not really. Gnome-vfs doesn't expose low-level properties of the
| > protocol like that. It tries to make everything look like a posix
| > filesystem layer.
| 
| Could a mechanism (in the spirit of a ioctl layer or sumthin) be made
| available on gnomevfs which would support that?
| 
| It would be awesome to "lock" a file in a webdav share by just
| right-clicking on Nautilus.  Or request specific server-supplied
| operations like "check in" or "approve".  Nautilus would then make a
| really really really really great workflow client, without any extra
| fuss.

Which was exactly my intention! Now if only I knew enough of gnome-vfs
to do that...

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