HTTPFS

HTTPFS is a fuse filesystem capable of mounting a typical Apache directory index as a local read-only filesystem.

Requirements

Python dependencies (works on both Python 2 and 3):

• requests
• fusepy
• beautifulsoup4
• six

Usage

usage: httpfs.py [-h] [--foreground] [--debug] [--nothreads] [--no_ssl_verify]
                 [--allow_other] [-o OPTIONS]
                 http_resource mountpoint

positional arguments:
  http_resource         Target web directory index
  mountpoint            Target directory

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --foreground          Do not fork into background (default: False)
  --debug               Enable debug logging (default: False)
  --nothreads           Disable fuse threads (default: False)
  --no_ssl_verify       Disable SSL Verification (default: False)
  --allow_other         Allow users other than the one running the command to
                        access the directory. (default: False)
  -o OPTIONS, --options OPTIONS
                        Mount-style variant of the above options
                        (e.g. -o no_ssl_verify,allow_other (default: )

Registering mount command

You can register this filesystem (so it can be used in fstab or with the mount command) in the following way:

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/Kurocon/HTTPfs.git

# Change into directory 
cd HTTPfs

# Make a symbolic link to /usr/sbin/
sudo ln -s `pwd`/httpfs.py /usr/sbin/mount.httpfs

You should now be able to use the filesystem in the following ways:

# In /etc/fstab
http://some.server/    /mnt/mountpoint    httpfs.py    allow_others      0    0

# In a normal mount command
sudo mount.httpfs http://some.server/ /mnt/mountpoint -o allow_others

# Or using the normal mount command
sudo mount -t httpfs http://some.server/ /mnt/mountpoint -o allow_others