Symbolic links

[mrjrozycki]

Hi everyone
Does wsgidav support symbolic links? We are working on a project where we want to serve files with wsgidav but serving symbolic links is pretty important to us. Is it supported in this library?
I already tried creating a small server, and it seems that symlinks were just replaced with files they link to, which is not ideal for us. Maybe I did something wrong tho and that is why I am asking :)

[mar10]

Could you explain in a bit more detail, what you are trying to achieve:

• Are you linking files or directories?
• How would we handle identical resources that are linked multiple times (Locking is is based on the resource URL).
• How would you expect the URL to change address bar of the browser when clicking a folder in the directory browser.

There is a stale RFC4437 related to this. I don't think it's implemented by many clients though.
The general problem of multiple occurrences of a single resource, could also be handled by a custom middleware (example).

FWIW:
with 4.3.0 a new option is introduced to control the handling of symlinks:
Note that fs_dav_provider.follow_symlinks is false by default, since symlinks may be a security risk.

#: Addional configuration passed to `FilesystemProvider(..., fs_opts)`
fs_dav_provider:
    #: Serve symbolic link files and folders
    follow_symlinks: true