Re: [gedit-list] HTTP PUT

[Steve Frécinaux <nudrema gmail com>]

James Leigh wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> It is obvious that gedit supports HTTP GET as it can open any http text
> file in the "Open Location" dialog. However, it always seems to be
> read-only (even when the server supports HTTP PUT).
>
> What would need to change for gedit to support saving text files to a
> http location url?

There is a gconf key which specifies which protocols gedit allows 
writing to:
 /apps/gedit-2/preferences/editor/save/writable_vfs_schemes
Other were considered not reliable enough to be enabled by default 
(understand: it caused data loss to some people)

Default is [dav, davs, sftp, smb, ssh], but you could add something else.

If it doesn't work, you must know gedit doesn't handle directly access 
to remote files. It goes through an abstraction layer, which is either 
gnomevfs (before gnome 2.24 or gnome 2.25, I'm not sure) or gvfs 
(later). So if there is some limitation in remote access you have, you 
should fix gvfs.