[Server-devel] Browsing school server

[Dan Poltawski]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:41:15PM -0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> I agree. Consider that Moodle - with the appropriate patches written
> by yours truly - does let you run webdav for file upload and
> management, *and* lets you browse the files without "seeing" moodle
> around them. No "login", no "enrol" into courses.
> 
> The reason to leverage moodle for this is that it handles the
> authentication for us when it comes to file upload and management.

One slight drawback to this approach is that it does conflict with the goal
of eventually rebasing onto Moodle 2.0. In Moodle 2.0 the complete file layer
has been rewritten which means some of the work would be of targeting 1.9
only. (The webdav patches need updating for 2.0, for example). 

Dan
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