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Read up on WebDAV, and got the haskell library working. Several hours
were wasted by stumbling over a bug in the library, that requires a
carefully crafted XML document to prevent. Such a pity about things
like DAV (and XMPP) being designed back when people were gung-ho about
XML.. but we're stuck with them now.
Now I'm able to send and receive files to box.com using the library. Trying to
use an OwnCloud server, though, I get a most strange error message, which
looks to be coming from deep in the HTTPS library stack: "invalid IV length"
The haskell DAV library didn't have a way to delete files. I've added one
and sent off a patch.
Roughed in a skeleton of a webdav special remote. Doesn't do anything yet.
Will soon.
Factored out a Creds module from parts of the S3 special remote and XMPP
support, that all has to do with credentials storage. Using this for webdav
creds storage too.
Will also need to factor out the code that's currently in the directory
special remote, for chunking of files.
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PS: WebDAV, for all its monstrously complicated feature set, lacks one obvious
feature: The ability to check how much free space is available to store
files. Eyeroll.