piranna/davius

The obvious DAV server

Davius

The obvious DAV server

Davius is a HTTP/WebDAV server that offer the content from the filesystem. You can see it as the big brother of other static web servers like serve-static.

It's mostly focused to serve static content for NodeOS graphic applications, but can be used wherever you want to expose a directory over HTTP and/or allow to modify its content using WebDAV.

Features

• HTTP 1.1 with RANGE header (also for partial PUT uploads)
• WebDAV extensions (COPY, MKCOL and MOVE) rfc4918
• Creation of symlinks rfc4437

Antifeatures (maybe in the future?)

• PATCH rfc5789 (maybe as alternative for partial PUT uploads?)
• PROPFIND, PROPPATCH, LOCK and UNLOCK WebDAV methods
• Extended MKCOL rfc5689

Why the name

Thinking about the DAV word it came to my mind the name of a friend of my girlfriend (although she still doesn't know she is, it's a secret, shh... ;-) ), and it was the obvious name :-D

Also, according to Google Translate, davius means road of the penguin in Albanian. That's funny, and I love penguins :-P

davius's Issues

Allow `Range` header for PUT

Although not standard (it should be used Content-Range), the Range header allow to define several byte-offsets. Probably they would need to be send using a multipart, but it would make sense to send them concatenated.

storage size

Support notification of storage size, fetching the data from the actual system partitions.

Use SSE to notify filesystem changes

As asked at https://github.com/evert/webdav-sharing/issues/4, define and implement an spec to notify of filesystem changes using Server Sent Events. This could be integrated with https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pot-webdav-notifications-03 or being an independent spec.

Implement other WebDAV specs

Implement other WebDAV related specs as the ones defined at https://gist.github.com/essen/12eb360f0717911d94ce#webdav

Implement PATCH method using multipart

Use multipart/form-data containing file fragments (with their content-range) for the PATCH method format as alternative to upload file fragments using the PUT method with the content-range header. By using the PATCH method and the content-range header files fragments would be send in raw similar to how it's done with the PUT method.