[PLUG] generic loser file upload brainstorming - webdav info

Josh Orchard josh at emediatedesigns.com
Fri Oct 1 14:04:02 UTC 2004


> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 03:23:15PM -0700, Russell Senior wrote:
>> >>>>> "Aaron" == Aaron Burt <aaron at bavariati.org> writes:
>>
>> Russell> I have never had occasion to do [WebDAV].  Can you describe
>> Russell> to me what the user does to make it work?
>>
>> Aaron> Erm, which?
>>
>> What is the remote file-sender experience like?
>
> Oh, I was talking about standard http upload.  WebDAV looks somewhat
> like mounting a remote filesystem, generally.
>

WEBDAV is an extension of HTTP.  It uses a newer set of HTTP methods
to extend communication between a client and server allow them to have
better control over files while still using standard HTTP communicaton
and available ports.

I still think that for simple none client installed software to manage
it is your best bet.  You can read all about it here:
http://www.webdav.org/.  Also you can read about Apache mod_dav here:
http://www.webdav.org/mod_dav/  it is actually included in apache.

You clients will not have to do anything beyond creating the first
connection.  You can document for them how to do that with native
window tools.

Josh







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