Q. Why should I use DAV instead of FTP? A. Since DAV works over HTTP, you get all the benefits of HTTP that FTP cannot provide. For example: strong authentication, encryption, proxy support, and caching. It is true that you can get some of this through SSH, but the HTTP infrastructure is much more widely deployed than SSH. Further, SSH does not have the wide complement of tools, development libraries, and applications that HTTP does.
DAV transfers (well, HTTP transfers) are also more efficient than FTP. You can pipeline multiple transfers through a single TCP connection, whereas FTP requires a new connection for each file transferred (plus the control connection). Source: http://www.webdav.org/other/faq.html#Q19 Disque el Lunes 26 Septiembre 2005 23:16, Horst von Brand escribiosese: > Juan Carlos Mu?±oz Ilabaca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > Estas equivocado... completamente al reves: HTTP es mas simple que > FTP. Pero fue inventado despues (y se siguio extendiendo), asi que... > > En todo caso, usa ssh. > > Y preocuparse porque los lindos usuarios se "salgan" de sus $HOME no tiene > sentido, en Unix /todo/ lo importante esta fuera de alli. Debiera estar > protegido adecuadamente contra mirones y manoseadores, si no es asi, ya > estas frito de todas formas. -- Only passengers seated in window seats ever have to get up to go to the lavatory -- Murphy's Laws for Frequent Flyers n°7
