[pmwiki-users] links to open upload folder in external apps

[Chris Cox]

On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 16:23 -0500, Chris Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 22:15 +0200, noskule wrote:
> > Chris Cox schrieb:
> > > On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 18:11 +0200, noskule wrote:
> > >   
> > >> hi list
> > >> I would like to do a link for authors so they could open upload folders 
> > >> in an external application using (s)ftp or webdav. Has anyone done this 
> > >> or knows how to do it?
> > >>     
> > >
> > > It's just another directory... so if your web permissions
> > > allow it, you can reach it.
> > >
> > >   
> > yes of course, the path and the permissions is not the problem. But I'm 
> > wondering if it is somehow possible to open the link in an external 
> > application like dolphin/konqueror in linux or file explorer in windows.
> > 
> > For windows there's something like:
> > 
> > <a href="" FOLDER="https://domain.net">Webfolder</a>
> > 
> > but I couldn't get it to work.
> > 
> > So I thought there's maybe a cross platform solution.
> 
> There are webdav solutions out there.  We use smbwebclient.php, which
> gives a web based interface into SMB shares... which could come off
> anything (Linux, etc).
> 
> Even better (IMHO) for Windows users it for them to use just
> SMB directly (best when possible)... or use WinSCP (again, if
> possible).  Using the web interface is slower with regards
> to uploads, etc.

Relooking at your post, I'm guessing your wanting some magic
way of getting a fill pull down to an app and automatic
push back... obviously not without a great deal of risk.

I think you're still looking at some kind of webdav protocol,
but since the external app might not speak that, it's easiest
to just mount the directory via some kind of network file
share... not quite integrated... if it's an internal only
site, you could assume you have a mount at a specific file
location at least get things to link.... but that's
separate from automatic filesytem/web integration.

(getting is obviously easier than putting/pushing)