On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 12:35, Alan Horn wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > >> Is apache with webdav and SSL an option instead here ? > > > > > > I don't get the solution. Can you elaborate? Meaning using an Upload > >form or something? > > > > > > Windows XP (and to a certain extent other windows platforms although I'm > not sure of the compatibility matrix), allows you to 'add a remote > location' as a folder. > > You can add a webdav aware webserver URL as this location. > > On the server side, you have apache with mod_dav and mod_ssl (the SSL for > security as I think you're trying to achieve). Then the location > definition in your httpd.conf file could be something like : > > Alias /webdav/foobar /path/to/foobar > <Location /webdav/foobar> > DAV On > AuthPAM_Enabled on > AllowOverride None > Options Indexes FollowSymLinks > AuthType Basic > AuthName "Foobar File Share" > Require group webdavusers > </Location> > > > You open the location on your windows desktop by double clicking just the > same as you would any folder. > > The webserver will authenticate you (probably using PAM, but it's up to > you how you configure this part) > > You can then drag and drop and perform operations as you would any normal > windows folder, the DAV portion over https is transparent to windows. And > I suspect the protocol os probably very much more efficient than SMB over > a wan. Clients for non windows users are also available (e.g. cadaver > command line Unix dav client) https would add additional Overhead though. It's not mentioned, does cavader actually mounts that as a shared drive/folder? > A quick google gives me some links that will help explain further. > > This shows some sample setup for windows : > > http://www.its.pomona.edu/about_its/help/help_sheets/HTML/winxpwebdav.htm > > This is the webdav community site : > > http://www.webdav.org/ > > Installation instructions for mod_dav > > http://www.webdav.org/mod_dav/install.html > > > Hope that this helps.. email me offline if you want more help on it :) This is certainly interesting. The FAQ states that it even supports file locking for concurrency support and most beneficial to _high_latency_ environments. That is way cool in my books. Thanks for the links. I'll read more on it during the weekends and explore further.
