Use Case 10: External API Integration via WebDAV

Scenario

An external application needs to programmatically upload daily report files to WebPal.

Using the XML API

import requests

# Step 1: Login
login_xml = '''<?xml version="1.0"?>
<request command="login" login="api-user" password="secure-password"/>'''

response = requests.post(
    'https://server.webpal.net/webservice/xml-service.php',
    data=login_xml,
    headers={'Content-Type': 'text/xml'}
)
# Parse session ID from response
session_id = parse_session_id(response.text)

# Step 2: Upload a file
upload_xml = f'''<?xml version="1.0"?>
<request command="upload" sessionID="{session_id}" pretty="true">
    <dir>/Reports/Daily</dir>
    <name>report-2026-04-25.pdf</name>
    <title>Daily Report - April 25, 2026</title>
</request>'''

# Include file content in multipart body
with open('daily_report.pdf', 'rb') as f:
    response = requests.post(
        'https://server.webpal.net/webservice/xml-service.php',
        data={'xmlRequest': upload_xml},
        files={'file': f}
    )

Using WebDAV

For simpler integrations, WebDAV is available at https://server.webpal.net/webdav:

Upload via curl

# Upload via curl
curl -T daily_report.pdf \
     -u api-user:secure-password \
     https://server.webpal.net/webdav/Reports/Daily/report-2026-04-25.pdf

Upload via Python

# Upload via Python
import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

with open('daily_report.pdf', 'rb') as f:
    requests.put(
        'https://server.webpal.net/webdav/Reports/Daily/report-2026-04-25.pdf',
        data=f,
        auth=HTTPBasicAuth('api-user', 'secure-password')
    )

Result

External systems can programmatically store reports in WebPal with full version tracking and activity logging.