Re: Basic FTP and .Mac support for a Cocoa app
Re: Basic FTP and .Mac support for a Cocoa app
- Subject: Re: Basic FTP and .Mac support for a Cocoa app
- From: Evan Jones <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 08:33:12 +0100
On Sunday, Dec 1, 2002, at 17:56 Europe/Zurich, Jan Van Boghout wrote:
Basically what I would like to do is similar to the publish &
subscribe feature found in iCal. You upload a file that holds
information, and others can subscribe to that file, thus getting the
latest info.
Anyway, does anyone have experience with using FTP and/or WebDAV?
I was digging around to try and figure out what iCal was doing. It is
astonishing to me that Apple hasn't made a public FTP/WebDAV API. Here
are some ideas I came up with, but I have tested none of them yet:
- One obvious work around is that Mac OS X can mount FTP and WebDAV
servers as disks. Therefore, one easy way to do a network copy would be
to mount the server, do a normal filesystem copy and then unmount the
server.
- However, I did a bit of investigation using RuntimeBrowser
(
http://www.prajnait.com/source/RuntimeBrowser.html) and turned up some
interesting private ObjectiveC APIs. The interesting one is
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DAVAccess. It contains a class called
DAVAccess, which seems to provide an ObjectiveC wrapper around
everything you would need for WebDAV.
If you figure anything more out, I would love to hear about it.
Evan Jones
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