Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Any folks have anything to say about WebDAV? I'm looking for something which looks like a mountable network drive but with some real security behind it.
I really like webdav. Simple semantics, you can secure it, apply acl's, etc. just like you can with a webpage. It works great across the net too. I think it has potential to be a much better general filesharing solution than samba or nfs. Most people just need to share files around the office or with remote offices it seems. They don't need high performance or file locking semantics or anything.
But all of the webdav clients seem to suck. Gnome's webdav client/file manager crashes on me regularly. Mac's finder, when used with webdav, will do stupid things like try to download entire graphics files to generate thumbnails. And if you don't have access to a folder it will repeatedly try to access that folder anyway (to generate a thumbnail or display its size or something) generating an infinite series of pop-ups letting you know. Very annoying. I'm not sure how Windows fairs with webdav as I don't do windows. I was really surprised that the Mac did so poorly with webdav since apple was involved in the original webdav RFC.
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