On 26.02.2007, at 17:46, Matthew Graham wrote:
> I think that this looks very promising and is line with similar
> thoughts that I have had about a RESTful interface for VOSpace -
> I've started writing these up and will hopefully have time to
> finish this some time soon.
surely the overwealmingly predominant RESTful file management web service is WebDAV? Just about every desktop computer on the planet has a WebDAV client bundled with the OS. I'm writing an implementation of VOSpace that also has a Webdav interface to the same metadata to investigate the possibilities. Perhaps we should be proposing extensions to WebDAV to cope with some of the useful VOSpace qualities - e.g. physical location independence via the vos: scheme, and asynchronous data transfer.
Paul Harrison
ESO Garching
www.eso.org
Received on 2007-03-04Z11:50:08