>>It seems that MS is pushing webdav hard. > > that's what's needed when heavy things run out of fuel.
Even as a potential substitute for ftp webdav is a farce. Speaking from personal experience, the amount of XML you need to generate for a directory listing is at least 20 times the size of the equivalent ftp listing, and then you twiddle your thumbs waiting for the webdav client to parse and render it. And don't get me started on vista... My wife's new dell laptop uses up 800 MB of ram doing who knows what after it boots and two times out of three fails to go to sleep w/ the fan whirling like a banshee. At times I wonder if I shouldn't have paid the $700 premium for the macbook. Sorry for the OT rant...
