[Twisted-Python] mounting a twisted server

Andrew Bennetts andrew-twisted at puzzling.org
Mon Dec 1 23:21:50 EST 2003


On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 07:55:37PM -0800, stephan wrote:
> 
> I have written a custom file system in python which I use in conjunction 
> with twisted and its http protocol. So, as far as browsers are concerned i 
> am fine. what I would like to do next is to serve my file system in some 
> form so that it could be mounted on a client machine. The idea is that 
> 'web enabled objects' can be directly edited in a certain app. NFS or 
> samba would conceptionally work but does not seem to be supported by 
> twisted and seems to be overkill anyways.
> 
> Does anybody have any ideas how I could accomplish that. Anybody 
> experienced with mounting ftp servers (heard its prone to errors.)

This sounds like a good use for WebDAV, but unfortunately there is no
Twisted implementation of it yet.  It's probably easier than NFS or SMB,
though, but I'm just guessing :)

-Andrew.





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