Re: GVFS + LibreOffice + WebDAV

[Andrew Beverley <andy andybev com>]

On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 05:52 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > I've just spent a while doing some debugging. The reason it doesn't work
> > is that there is no "append" method in the webdav code. So any attempts
> > to open a file for appending are met with the error "Operation not
> > supported by backend".
> > I see no reason why there couldn't be an append method, as there are
> > plenty of other webdav clients that appear to manage it. It just needs
> > someone to write one.
> 
> Huh, every client I've seen sends the document in a single PUT
> operation, usually composed to a local temporary file first.

Yeah, I was just thinking about that today, and was thinking that a
cache may be the best way to achieve it. I had a look at the davfs2
program and it uses a cache. The downside is that it is probably a fair
bit of development, as the code to manage a cache would have to be
implemented.

I'd be interested to know the gvfs maintainer's view on all of this.