Question

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.

Answer 1

With webdav-lib I could solve that problem:

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