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erikbstack
erikbstack

Reputation: 13254

getting started with davlib.py

I want to write a script to connect and access a webdav server. I found out that there is a 

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/davlib.py

But how to use it? There is no tutorial, no documentation and nothing to google. Anybody able to write a small hello world for it?

the test webdav server is on localhost:80/webdav and there is a davtest.txt file with the word dav inside.

$ cd <path_to_webdav>
$ ls
davtest.txt
$ cat davtest.txt
dav

I can read python, so if I could just connect and read that there is a file called davtest.txt or maybe even it's content I think I could get started working with the source. Not knowing how webDAV works and not knowing davlib.py both together is quite tough, though.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 589

Answers (2)

mingxiao
mingxiao

Reputation: 1802

To do a simple get request using davlib

import davlib
import base64

host = 'myhost'
protocol = 'myprotocol'
username = 'myusername'
password = 'mypassword'

url = '{}://{}/{}'.format(protocol, host, some_file_path)
d = davlib.DAV(protocol=myprotocol, host=myhost)
auth_token = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' %(username, password)).strip()
header = {"Authenication": "Basic %s' %auth_token}

d.get(url,header)

Basic authentication is usable only on https. For more (dry) details on webDAV, see the RFC.

The most mature webDAV client library I've found is python-webdav-library

Upvotes: 0

erikbstack
erikbstack

Reputation: 13254

With webdav-lib I could solve that problem:

    url = "davs://localhost:80/webdav/davtest.txt"   
    r = ResourceStorer(url)
    result = r.downloadContent().read()

Upvotes: 1

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