[KLUG Members] WebDAV Support Pretty Good [Was:: Nautilus in RH 7.3 and Samba shares...revisited... -- Miguel is good and bad ...]

[Adam Williams]

>>Maybe WebDAV is the way to go for this?  I don't have much experience
>>with it or any idea what the current level of support in VFS is,  but I
>>bump into the term an awful lot lately.  Any WebDAV gurus out there?
>Maybe WebDAV is what we should be keying on for home users.  But it's
>not Windows-centric, so you won't see Microsoft pushing it.  ;-p

While my huge stack of pancakes digested I decided to take a look at this.  
Apparently WebDAV support is pretty solid.  

Setting up a WebDAV share via apache,  with mod_dav incluceded in RedHat, 
was laughably trivial.

Nautilus (GNOME VFS) when recieving the URL "http://localhost" said: Oh,
thats a WebDAV server.  I was able to delete files (right click, delete)
and drag-n-drop files into it, drag-n-drop files from it.  

One still can't "open" files into applications from there, but thats no 
big deal.

"Properties" dealt with it, saying there was no permission on the 
specified object; which seemed a pretty clean way to handle it.

Authentication and access control works with all the mod_auth* modules.

Basically it seems like a simple brainless client way to share some files,  
which is what I was looking for.

There is even a project that allows mounting a WebDAV share as a 
filesystem - http://dav.sourceforge.net/  But that isn't what I'm 
interested in.