Re: GVFS + LibreOffice + WebDAV

[Andrew Beverley <andy andybev com>]

On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 12:18 +0000, Andrew Beverley wrote:
> 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.

Hmmm, having just written that, I assume there must already be some sort
of cache in order to pass the file to the application. I'll have a look
when I get another chance.