Re: [MLUG] WebDAV (From Exchange drop-in thread)

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Jason McIntosh wrote:

> On 12/10/02 11:17 AM, "Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> 
> [snipped]
> 
> >> Now, on the other hand, there could be a piece-meal solution.
> >> You could use a WebDAV system or similar for folder management,
> > 
> > [snip] As an aside, what's the best source of information on WebDAV?
> > The more I hear about it, the more intrigued I am by the whole
> > idea.
> 
> WebDAV as an interesting technology.  Look at www.webdav.org.

I've been there before, but I'll look again.

> If you're running Windows XP, it can mount WebDAV enabled
> systems.  OS X does so as well.

I believe this is how the (now departed) iDisk stuff worked, right?

> Linux can with certain compiled modules, but doesn't with the
> default systems right now.

OK; in this case you mean the DAV modules for Apache, right?  
Anyway, what I knew before was:

> WebDAV is a protocol extension to HTTP.  It essentially acts as
> a filesystem, allowing you to upload files, and get information.  
> It's pretty cool, and Apple is using it heavily in all their
> products.  

And the news is:

> I enabled it on my workstation at work, and can connect to it
> from my OS X laptop.
> 
> http://www.drijf.net/dototto/index.html

OK, so this is now getting pretty useful and serious.  Thanks!
 
> Has the OS X and apple instructions for a few things.  Let me
> know if you need more info on configuration, setup, etc.  I
> ended up using Apache toolbox on my RedHat 8.0 system (which
> just switched to Gentoo), and it worked for the most part.  
> Getting the quota support into WebDAV was tricky, but aftewards,
> it worked fine.

OK, so just to recap:  Using WebDav you can mount volumes, achieve
read/write access to files on these, maybe even do locking, and run
the whole thing over an encrypted connection and access everything
(if you really wanted) through a web browser.  Is this close?  If
so, how close are we getting to the elimination of stuff like NFS? 
:-)

jking

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