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The Subversion HTTP protocol is WebDaV, so it is most certainly a living standard. Microsoft Office (used to?) support WebDAV URLs in its open dialog, I imagine
by _wmd 8y ago
The Subversion HTTP protocol is WebDaV, so it is most certainly a living standard. Microsoft Office (used to?) support WebDAV URLs in its open dialog, I imagine that's still the case. I'm pretty sure it sees wide use in Microsoft stuff come to think of it. FrontPage used to use it, Sharepoint uses it(?). I suspect some more of their non-Office authoring tools
Oh - hell - yes, and Microsoft IIS. That was a big user back in the day, again for FrontPage integration, but you could use it generically too
And of course, Windows and OS X still support mounting WebDAV URLs as drives.
edit: it ain't going anywhere: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~ejw/authoring/implementation.html https://www.ics.uci.edu/~ejw/authoring/implementation.html
- LoSboccacc 8y agothere's also the httpd module https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_dav.html https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_dav.html and the tomcat module https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/Tomcat/WebDav https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/Tomcat/WebDav however, each and almost every of them speak its own dialect, so client compatibility will be spotty.
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- orf 8y agoIIRC all Windows open dialogs support WebDAV browsing and opening. It's actually pretty neat.
- DaiPlusPlus 8y agoWindows will download the file to a temporary location (while blocking the UI thread for this!) and then pass the path of that temporary file to the application. It works but is far from perfect - I won’t be surprised if it drops support for that little trick in a near release of Windows. I still want to know why Windows supports this yet still doesn’t ship with a native command-like equivalent to curl or wget (PowerShell doesn’t count)
- sarah180 8y agoWhy wouldn't PowerShell count? It's the standard scripting and command environment for modern versions of Windows. As of Windows 10, Microsoft has even phased out cmd.exe from the menus and for shortcuts like Win+X. It's still possible to get the legacy environment back, but it's exactly that: a legacy environment.
- WorldMaker 8y agoWindows ships with native curl(.exe) now [1]. (Though PowerShell is great, and I think it counts, personally.) [1] https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/virtualization/2017/12/19/tar-and-curl-come-to-windows/ https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/virtualization/2017/12/1...
- tootie 8y agoCurl has had a Windows version for a while but they used to alias curl to Invoke-WebRequest which was super irritating. I just use curl via WSL now.
- cuspycode 8y agoYes, I have used it to mount document servers as remote drives via WebDAV, and then use standard Unix one-liners to do queries and updates. Much more convenient than working with custom APIs. I also once integrated an open-source WebDAV server into my own code, in order to expose parts of an SQL database as a remotely mountable filesystem. This would have taken much more effort without the existing WebDAV infrastructure.