New WebDAV access for Objectis sites
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2004-11-04
The WebDAV protocol allows to manipulate Zope objects as files, as well as transferring files to and from the web server.
WebDAV is embeddeed into HTTP, which means:
- less firewall issues,
- less network address translation (NAT) -related issues,
- more security.
This service is intended to be a long-term replacement of the FTP service, that cannot be implemented properly on Objectis because of firewall and NAT issues.
What is WebDAV?
According to WebDAV.org, "WebDAV stands for 'Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning'. It is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers." See their FAQ for more information and/or read this excellent article from the O'Reilly Network.
