Shibboleth Developers

["Michael A. Grady" <>]

Note a problem to date with Mac OS X WebDAV support -- it has not supported
HTTPS connections. Apple has been promising to support such for a long time,
but last I'd heard, they had yet to do so.

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>Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:32:03 -0400
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>Subject: OS X info, webDAV use case
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>webdav was one one of the use cases discussed during this past 
>monday's conf call. Altho, strictly speaking, it may not sound like a 
>"non-browser, non-web application" (since it runs over http), the 
>clients are often something other than a web browser.
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>During the call, it was noted that the apache plugin mod_dav works 
>with shibboleth.
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>The next problem was finding a client that could provide the 
>appropriate SAML assertions....
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>Here's some info about the WEBDAV support built into OS X....
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>this functionality is available via the Mac FINDER. However, based 
>on this note from Apple, it appears that the core functionality may 
>be built into Darwin, the open source system that OS X is built 
>on...... check out the man page for mount_webdav
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>so.... what  would a use case for this look like?
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>>From: Daryl Hawes 
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>>Date: Tue Sep 23, 2003  6:50:29 PM US/Eastern
>>To: jaym 
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>>Subject: Re: WebDAV code - in Finder or in Darwin ?
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>>Jay,
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>>http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/html/mount_
webdav.8.html
>>    Darwin man pages available for the mount_webdav open source 
>>command line tool which shows that darwin has the webdav mount 
>>capabilities.
>>    They can browse the Darwin code at
>>http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/index.html
>>    More specifically, the WebDAV file system section:
>>http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.2.8/webdavfs-115/
>>
>>Daryl Hawes
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