Practical experiences with WebDAV

WebDAV is an extension of HTTP to offer web-based storage. Originally envisioned as a protocol for distributed authoring and versioning it never got beyond web-based storage.

WebDAV is used by companies to offer remote storage to their customers. Examples of WebDAV for storage are Apple's .Mac and the XS4ALL webdisk. WebDAV can be a very effective webbased storage solution, but there are a lot of caveats, because of bugs in clients and intentional sabotage by big software vendors, which limit the use.

This talk will focus on how to set up a WebDAV server with Apache on a Unix system, what issues there are with certain clients, what you can do to avoid or circumvent these problems and how this impacts what you can do with your system.