userserv

I used this a while ago on my own insane project. I had a Webdav server and websocketd providing a Web interface to a Linux box. Even at it's young age (bug reports #5 and #7 were mine), it allowed me to progress a lot further in my project before I needed to write a server designed specifically for the task at hand. In the end I wrote userserv https://github.com/Lerc/userserv for the one must have feature I needed. I needed logins and responses delivered from a process with the UID of the CookieToken. So, thanks Joe. Notanos got further because of websocketd and while I'm not currently using it, There's a high chance of me doing so in future projects.

Speaking from the perspective of someone who touched WebDav and then wrote my own server alternative. WebDav is really that bad. It has a special combination of using XML to be theoretically extensible while generalised to use the lowest common denominator of features. I can't recall the specific details, but I certainly remember the pain. Apart from the inevitable and unnecessary translation from XML to a JavaScript object. I seem to recall there were weird cases where the XML format produced a different structure for cases where directories contained a single file. In the short term I found capturing the output of "ls -al urlpath" was vastly easier to deal with. In the longer term I wrote a server https://github.com/Lerc/userserv It might be worth me revisiting userserv to switch to the SpockFS protocol. Currently I use a websoc