Talk:WebDAV

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WebDAV for hard disk access

I kept in mind WebDAV is (also) used for connecting to a remote hard disk. Or am I wrong? --Abdull 23:24, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Researching.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.28.0.249 (talk • contribs)

How can we secure our documents thru Internet

Hi,

If we have documents (PDF or HTML) that we need to share with everybody BUT we need just to VIEW them without being able to download or save them under their machine. How can we do that ?

Regards Pierre —Preceding unsigned comment added by Softsolutions (talk • contribs)

You cant: viewing and downloading is the same thing from an HTTP point of view. (reschke) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.91.35.233 (talk • contribs)

I suggest you go and talk to the RIAA and MPAA. They're trying to develop similarly impossible schemes for music and movies. Imroy 15:13, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect and Disambiguation

Given that "WebDAV" is halfway-formal, I've never heard the term spoken aloud, but rather just as "DAV" (that is to say, like "Dave" but without the silent "e"). Might it be appropriate to create a redirect for that truncated/vernacular form, either to this article or to a page that disambiguates Distributed Authoring and Versioning from the Disabled American Veterans? Persist1 04:24, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

See webdav.org FAQ#1. So were it spoken aloud, it would be "Webdav" rather than "Web-Dee-A-Vee"?--87.162.47.132 09:02, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Webdav.org down

As noted by User:Onelove, the webdav.org site seems to be down ("no route to host"). Hopefully this is just a temporary matter. If it's down longer than a few days, it should be noted next to the link. Longer than that and the links should be removed. Imroy 15:03, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As of 9 May 2006, 13:30PM, PDT, the site is still down. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.193.65.121 (talk • contribs)

You mean down *again*. Last time, it was back up the next day. Perhaps the article should note that the site is somewhat unreliable. Imroy 21:24, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unknown software links

I've just gone through and attempted to seperate the huge list of "Software supporting WebDAV" into servers, clients, and services. I hope I haven't mixed up too many entries. There are two left that I cannot do anything with:

They're both red links and offer no external link. A google search turned up http://kiwi.stanford.edu/ but it isn't responding. I found stellant.com but it looks to be a huge corporate portal and I can't quickly find anything relevant. I'll leave the links here if anyone wants to investigate further. Imroy 13:12, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of SEARCH method from method list

The SEARCH method is included in the list of WEBDAV methods however, I believe that this method isn't actually in the WEBDAV RFC. It exists rather in a draft of the WEBDAV groups search extensions.

Therefore the search method should be removed from the list of DAV methods. Perhaps we can create a stub article to point to the WEBDAV group's related searching counterpart (DASL). -- P.A.H.

(Indeed; removed SEARCH from the message list) Reschke 09:32, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Long lists of software

As noted by an earlier editor this article has attracted a long, non-encyclopedic list of software. To get this article looking more like an encyclopedia entry, I am removing all of those lists. Notable material should be added back as text (sentences). Lists tend to become indiscriminant and attract spammers. See various policies and guidelines that encourage text, not lists: WP:EL, Wikipedia:Embedded list, WP:LAUNDRY and WP:NOT. JonHarder 23:33, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It is a shame that you took such action. The article now contains no information whatsoever about software the supports this, making the article quite useless to most readers. If you weren't willing to make at least a minimal effort to pick the most significant ones to mention, or move the material elsewhere and link to it, it would have been much better for you to leave it as it was. 69.87.204.240 13:22, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think we have evidence that long lists attract spamming; also the distinction between "server" (as something you can install and run) and "service" (something online somewhere) became a problem, and the Wiki page certainly should not list all services that may happen to run on of the well-known servers. I really believe that people looking for servers and/or clients should do that through a search engine, not this entry. Reschke 09:30, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dates needed

The article has no dates. They are needed throughout to put events in time context. 69.87.204.240 13:22, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I provided some citations and dates for early history of WebDAV. I was directly involved, so perhaps per WP:COI I shouldn't have made these edits? DanConnolly 01:59, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Subversion and WebDAV

It is mentioned in the article that Subversion is an alternative to WebDAV, but it is never mentioned that Subversion commonly uses WebDAV to communicate (such as on http://code.google.com/p/).

--Quartz (talk) 00:46, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Open Standard

Is it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.179.214.172 (talk) 14:44, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mac clients

Noting that there's a whole section on Windows clients, should we also add in a small section that states that MacOSX supports mounting WebDAV volumes and manipulation of them via it's WebdavFS? We might also want to mention that Apple's iDisk is accessed by the finder via WebDAV. Kylar (talk) 04:49, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Article Dates

It would be nice to add some dates to this article. --PierreWiki 18:00, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Bias

The top-of-page summary irks me. While the content is well written and entirely true, it reads like an advertisement. I would recommend rewording this.

Examples:

The WebDAV protocol allows "Intercreativity," making the Web a readable and writable medium, in line with Tim Berners-Lee's original vision. --Advertising catch-phrase
it is almost as easy to use files on a WebDAV server as those stored in local directories. --Persuasive language
Similarly, words like "allow" and "useful" are used persuasively throughout the section and should be replaced with phrases that describe the functionality of WebDAV, rather than the benefit of WebDAV.

These are subtle things, but subtle hints are typical of persuasive language, and should be avoided here.

159.140.254.10 (talk) 20:29, 27 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Usages? Non-Windows implementations?

Are there any widespread ways to use it? The article should tell about current usages of this technology?

The article should also tell what non-Windows software is available.--Imz (talk) 17:36, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have time to research them, but I know that there is a mod_dav for Apache allowing the DAV protocol - there used to be an Apache Jakarta project called Slide, and I think Apache Jackrabbit supports WebDAV. There's also Apple's MobileMe iDisk which uses WebDAV as it's primary protocol. Not sure if this is any help . Kylar (talk) 00:47, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]