DaviX

Davix
DeveloperCERN
Stable release
0.8.10 / February 13, 2025; 20 months ago (2025-02-13)
Written inC++
Operating systemLinux, macOS, Windows
TypeWebDAV client
LicenseGNU Lesser General Public License
Websitedavix.web.cern.ch/davix/docs/devel/
Repositorygithub.com/cern-fts/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.

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, the File Transfer Services (FTS), the European Middleware Initiative gfal2 library or the dynamic storage federation project.

Feature support

Davix supports:

Examples of Davix command line use

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

Platforms

Linux

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

The European Middleware Initiative and the European Grid Infrastructure distribute it through their project repositories.

macOS

The Homebrew distribution channel distributes sources and binaries for Davix.

Windows

Cygwin compatible binaries are available for Windows.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "DaviX: License File". GitHub. CERN. Archived from the original on 2025-10-03. Retrieved 2026-05-10.
  2. ↑ Devresse, A.; Furano, F. (2014). "Efficient HTTP Based I/O on Very Large Datasets for High Performance Computing with the Libdavix Library". Big Data Benchmarks, Performance Optimization, and Emerging Hardware. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 8807. p. 194. arXiv:1410.4168. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-13021-7_15. ISBN 978-3-319-13020-0. S2CID 7644795. "libdavix/Davix"
  3. ↑ Furano, F.; Devresse, A.; Keeble, O.; Hellmich, M.; Ayllón, A. Á. (2014). "Towards an HTTP Ecosystem for HEP Data Access". Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 513 (3) 032034. Bibcode:2014JPhCS.513c2034F. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/513/3/032034. "Http Ecosystem for HEP: Davix"
  4. ↑ ROOT and Davix https://dmc.web.cern.ch/projects/davix/root-and-davix-tutorial Archived 2015-01-31 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ ROOT Davix integration https://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/root-version-v5-34-00-patch-release-notes
  6. ↑ Ayllon, A. A.; Salichos, M.; Simon, M. K.; Keeble, O. (2014). "FTS3: New Data Movement Service for WLCG". Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 513 (3) 032081. Bibcode:2014JPhCS.513c2081A. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/513/3/032081. "File Transfer Service"
  7. ↑ GridPP usage recommendations https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/DPM_Fuse Archived 2015-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ↑ Nilsen, J. K.; Cameron, D.; Devresse, A.; Molnar, Z.; Nagy, Z.; Salichos, M. (2012). "EMI datalib - joining the best of ARC and g Lite data libraries". Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 396 (5) 052057. Bibcode:2012JPhCS.396e2057N. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/396/5/052057. EMI datalib
  9. ↑ Furano, F.; Brito Da Rocha, R.; Devresse, A.; Keeble, O.; Álvarez Ayllón, A.; Fuhrmann, P. (2012). "Dynamic federations: Storage aggregation using open tools and protocols". Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 396 (3) 032042. Bibcode:2012JPhCS.396c2042F. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/396/3/032042. DynaFed
  10. ↑ Fedora EPEL pkgdb https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/davix/ Archived 2015-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ↑ Debian pkg davix https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=davix
  12. ↑ Ubuntu pkg repo davix https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/davix
  13. ↑ EMI release http://www.eu-emi.eu/releases/emi-3-monte-bianco/updates/-/asset_publisher/5Na8/content/update-16-12-05-2014-v-3-7-4-1 Archived 2015-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ↑ UMD repositories http://repository.egi.eu/2014/11/10/davix-0-3-6/ Archived 2015-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
  15. ↑ Davix homebrew http://brewformulas.org/Davix