Cadaver and proxy auth

Posted in Linux / unix, Software-related, Work on October 25th, 2008 by Jan

At work we regularly have to send over files to $vendor. $Vendor has two ways of accepting files: FTP, and Webdav (over https). Since our company’s policy is to not send things out unencrypted, we have to go the webdav way. It’s also the policy to send things over our internetproxy if possible.

After some searching for a console-based webdav client we ran across cadaver, a lightweight client that seemed to do the trick. It has proxy support, so great ;)

What isn’t so great is that it doesn’t have any way to supply the proxy authentication in a non-interactive way, which is crucial to allow us to script this file transfer.

Today I took the time to create a patch that allows just that – setting the proxy info in advance. It also includes a parameter to trust the server certificate implicitly, otherwise it was yet another step where cadaver would come and ask for user input.

Now it works like a charm! :)

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You know what sucks…

Posted in Miscellaneous on October 21st, 2008 by Jan

… waking up at 6 in the morning, because you hear a certain sound you associate with water that’s coming under high pressure from a tap.

Upon closer inspection, the tap in the shower was spraying hot water from one of the sides. Luckely, the shower door was closed, or the bathroom would have been flooded.

After shutting down the water flow and removing the tap, we found this:



Broken tap

Side which is still good (cold water)

Side which is broken (hot water)

It basically cleanly split off from the tube, causing the place to be sprayed in hot water. Fun, not. Goddamn shoddy quality products!!

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40000 year-old stone vs iPhone 3G

Posted in Hardware-related, Miscellaneous on October 1st, 2008 by Jan

rock vs iphone

So true… ;)

(thanks to Gh0sty)

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