put something into url "http://www.mydomain.com"

David Bovill david at vaudevillecourt.tv
Sun Nov 23 11:57:02 EST 2008


I'll take a look Mark! Have you looked at the Cloud stuff they just
released?

2008/11/23 Mark Smith <lists at futilism.com>

> Glad to hear you've got it working.
>
> Re S3, in the REST interface, PUT is indeed the method, it's only in the
> SOAP interface that the data is uploaded as a DIME attachment to a SOAP
> envelope.
>
> When I was writing my S3 library, I found that doing PUTs with libUrl
> tended to fail with data bigger than a megabyte or so, DELETE kind of
> worked, but seemed to take a long time to return, and I seem to remember
> that making HEAD requests wasn't completely plain sailing, either (nothing
> new there :)).
> Also, libUrl won't upload files from disc using http.
>
> The version currently knocking about used my own socket/http routines, and
> seems to work well enough, but the version I'm currently working with uses
> curl.
>
> Best,
>
> Mark
>
>
> On 23 Nov 2008, at 15:04, David Bovill wrote:
>
>  2008/11/23 Mark Smith <lists at futilism.com>
>>
>>  David, I'm not expert on this, but I'd bear in mind that webDav is not
>>> HTTP
>>> (as far as I know).
>>>
>>
>>
>> Ive just looked and done a test - and yes WebDav uses PUT and the other
>> basic HTTP actions - it just extends them with metadata and COPY / MOVE
>> etc.
>> I've set up a WebDav server and it seems to work fine - very simple from
>> Rev.
>>
>>
>>  Also, PUT is not well supported in libUrl, and I don't think webDav is at
>>> all (Dave Cragg may be able to say more...)
>>>
>>> As for modernity, with Amazon's S3 service, http PUT is the main method
>>> of
>>> getting stuff in, so that seems pretty 'modern' to me :)
>>>
>>
>>
>> I'll take another look - from memory it was a very well implemented done
>> REST service - but the PUT you refer to was not simply the data - but a
>> formatted XML packet - still I must look at it again and the library
>> kicking
>> around on the list?
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