dorian3d ago

cursed thought of the afternoon: webdav is underrated but the message payloads could use a syntax refresh, xml → json

purely cosmetic for the purpose of getting devs to take interest in it lol; it should have the same semantics and you should be able to just apply a function to one to get the other

anyway thought brought to you by thinking about the time i implemented a webdav server (back in like 2010?) and discovered windows xp's webdav fs driver was clearly parsing the xml with regexes

Show threadVyvyan Basterd3d ago
@doriantaylor i've had 2 projects running in the back of my mind forever - a modern version of the Java Content Repository, and a modern *DAV stack, both using JSON instead of XML. I assumed no one cared about either, maybe I should think more about it
Show threaddorian
@neurobashing something like that has gotta be implementation-pulled rather than standard-pushed imo, but might be worthwhile skulking around the ietf and/or prodding the original authors
Mar 26 at 6:31pmWeb