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I honestly didn't know WevDAV was still a thing. It seems like a nightmare from which we should have woken up long ago. I do sympathize though. Every service im
by kayo_20211030 10mo ago
I honestly didn't know WevDAV was still a thing. It seems like a nightmare from which we should have woken up long ago. I do sympathize though. Every service implements (or implemented) it differently, or spottily, or partially. Is it another example of the adage that "even your bugs have users"?
- calvinmorrison 10mo agoWebDav, life before S3
- kayo_20211030 10mo agolol. "Life, Jim, but not as we know it."
- willhschmid 10mo agoWhy is it a nightmare? I use WebDAV almost every day. All my online servers support it, and it makes it super easy for me to map them as a file system driver in Windows, allowing me to edit files directly on the server.
- kayo_20211030 9mo agoUsing WebDAV is generally fine, if you have the tools. The weirdness (the hell?) is when you're required to write those tools, or libraries yourself; most especially when the tools you'll write need to work with different flavors of servers. Each's adherence to the protocol is a little "loose" at times. Odd responses. Odd errors. The whole gamut. When it works, it works fine; when it doesn't it really is a bit of a nightmare.