using static-http with PUT/POST

[Rian Hunter]

Hmm well for editing a remote resource via Http PUT/DELETE should be enough. WebDAV gives you the MOVE, COPY, MKCOL, LOCK, and UNLOCK which are nice for efficiency reasons.

I'm fine writing the patch myself, I dont need anyone here to spend their blood, sweat, and tears on a feature they don't care about :). I have a server that will save data to the file system using PUT, and DELETE in the same way. I guess I was wondering if it was theoretically possible.  I.e. would implementing something like this actually need the more advanced file system commands that WebDAV gives, or can I get away with just PUT/DELETE.

Also does mercurial do bulk transfers without needing to inspect it's data? If so http pipelining can speed up the interaction.

On Apr 7, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-04-06 at 15:07 -0700, Rian Hunter wrote:
>> hello
>> 
>> it is possible to push to a static-http mercurial repo that supports 
>> PUT/POST (and not just GET)?
> 
> No.
> 
>> if not can i implement that? what are the thoughts about that?
> 
> Not really. To be able to read/write files on a webserver, rather than
> simple read them, PUT/POST won't help. Those methods are generally for
> interacting with server-side applications, and no "static" web server
> will simply let you write to files that way.
> 
> The closest thing to what you're asking for would be a WebDAV[1]-enabled
> server and adding WebDAV support in Mercurial. As static-http access is
> very inefficient and only useful for very small repos and has very few
> users to start with, we'll probably never bother to implement this sort
> of thing.
> 
> But if you already have a WebDAV server, you may be able to use FUSE[2]
> (on Linux or Mac) or the WebDAV redirector[3] on Windows to do this
> without modifying Mercurial.
> 
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV
> [2] http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/fusedav/
> [3] http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc787023%28v=ws.10%
> 29.aspx
> 
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