litmus

litmus is a WebDAV server protocol compliance test suite.

GitHub: https://github.com/notroj/litmus | Web: https://notroj.github.io/litmus/

Tests include:

• OPTIONS for DAV: header
• PUT, GET with byte comparison
• MKCOL
• DELETE (collections, non-collections)
• COPY, MOVE using combinations of:
  • overwrite t/f
  • destination exists/doesn't exist
  • collection/non-collection
• Property manipulation and querying:
  • set, delete, replace properties
  • persist dead props across COPY
  • namespace handling
• Locking
  • attempts to modify locked resource (as lock owner, not owner)
  • shared/exclusive locks
  • lock discovery
  • collection locking
  • lock refresh

Bugs, feature requests and patches can be sent in via the Github repository: https://github.com/notroj/litmus

Usage

litmus comprises of a set of test suites as separate executables: each program takes a URL on the command-line, optionally followed by username and password. To run all the suites from a built litmus tree, use

 $ make URL=http://dav.example.com/path/ check

Where http://dav.example.com/path/ is a DAV-enabled collection. litmus must be able to create a new collection called 'litmus' at that location. The Makefile variable 'CREDS' can also be defined to be a username/password separated by strings. e.g. if you have a user 'jim' defined with password '2518', use:

 $ make URL=http://dav.example.com/path/ CREDS="jim 2518" check

To aid debugging, litmus adds a header `X-Litmus-One' to every request made. After running a test suite, the file 'debug.log' includes a full neon debugging trace (unless neon or litmus was configured without debugging enabled!).

To use after installation is complete ('make install'), run the 'litmus' script, passing in a URL, optionally followed by the username/password. For instance:

 $ litmus http://dav.example.com/path/

or

 $ litmus http://dav.example.com/path/ jim 2518

Copyright and licensing

litmus is licensed under the GNU GPL; see COPYING for full details.

litmus is Copyright (C) 1999-2022 Joe Orton