DaviX

Davix is an open-source client for WebDAV and Amazon S3 available for Microsoft Windows, Apple MacOSX and Linux. Davix is written in C++ and provide several command-line tools and a C++ shared library.²³

Davix is a tool for remote I/O, file transfer and file management based on the HTTP protocol.

Davix is used at CERN by several projects, including the ROOT data analysis framework,⁴⁵ the File Transfer Services (FTS),⁶ the European Middleware Initiative gfal2 library ⁷⁸ or the dynamic storage federation project.⁹

Davix supports:

• SSL/TLS
• User/password authentication
• X.509 client certificates authentication
• Redirection caching
• Multi-range requests (vector I/O)
• Checksum calculation
• Session recycling
• VOMS credential
• Multi-sources via Metalink
• SOCKS4/5
• S3 and WebDAV operations

to upload a file to a WebDAV repository

$ davix-put local_file davs://example.com/folder1/remote_file

to download a file from a S3 bucket with AWS authentication

$ davix-get --s3secretkey A --s3accesskey B s3://bucket1.s3-instance.com/long/path/remote_file local_file

To list a WebDAV repository over https

$ davix-ls davs://example.com/folder1/folder2/

To list an S3 bucket with AWS authentication

$ davix-ls --s3secretkey A --s3accesskey B s3://bucket1.s3-instance.com/

To create a subdirectory over WebDAV

$ davix-mkdir davs://example.com/folder1/folder2/folder4

Execute an HTTP PUT request to a RESTful webservice with the content "hello"

$ davix-http -X PUT—data "hello" http://example.com/rest/api/service

Davix is available on several linux distributions via the Fedora, RedHat EPEL,¹⁰ Debian ¹¹ and Ubuntu ¹² software repositories.

The European Middleware Initiative¹³ and the European Grid Infrastructure¹⁴ distribute it through their project repositories.

The Homebrew distribution channel distributes sources and binaries for Davix.¹⁵

Cygwin compatible binaries are available for Windows.