[TriLUG] samba vs. webdav on small mixed-os networks?

[Magnus]

On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 11:46 AM, Andrew Perrin wrote:

> Hey, that's cool - I never heard of webdav before, thanks for pointing 
> it
> out. How mature is it?

It's really neat, I've played with it a bit, but don't know that all 
the security issues are well understood yet so I'm going to watch it 
for awhile.

One curious side effect of it, I set it up to let Quanta directly edit 
my web pages on a remote server.  I use php for some simple things and 
apache interpreted the php before sending me the files by webdav, so 
all I got was html.  Doh.  I'm sure I could set up a virtual server or 
an alias or something for my webdav stuff that wouldn't run files 
through an interpreter first before serving them up.

It's worth noting that Hotmail was relaying spam for awhile 
unintentionally because someone submitted mail through webdav to them 
which circumvented their normal filters.

I think webdav is going to be really hot.  There is a lot of unrealized 
potential there.  I just don't like being a beta tester for new stuff 
like that.

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C. Magnus Hedemark
http://trilug.org/~chrish
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