Some criticism of using WebDAV from Omnidrive

[Adam Rosien]

See the CEO of Omnidrive's comments at
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/zoho_omnidrive_data_standards.php#comments.

Omnidrive advertises a WebFS project, but the links return empty
pages. Anyone know anything about it?

.. Adam

[Anton Bar (G.ho.st)]

I think that the XmlHttpRequest problem was solved. There are JS
libraries that support WebDAV: http://www.webdavsystem.com/ajax.

Firewalls can a real issue.

The advantages of WebDAV are:
- Built in support on Windows and Mac (see http://www.mydocsonline.com/info_webfolders.html)
- MS Office supports direct access to WebDAV
- Loads of open source code (e.g. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_dav.html)

I tend to prefer the following solution: support the original WebDAV
and an extension that uses HTTP GET or POST and sends the WebDAV
commands as query parameters. In this scenario, the worst that can
happen is that some users with extra paranoid firewalls will not be
able to create web folders. Other features will work. The Apache
mod_dav can be easily extended to read WebDAV commands from query
params.

What do you think?

Anton


On Mar 19, 8:38 pm, "Adam Rosien" <a...@rosien.net> wrote:
> See the CEO of Omnidrive's comments athttp://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/zoho_omnidrive_data_standards.ph....

[Anton Bar (G.ho.st)]

Maybe we can prepare a request for comments and votes - who prefers
which standard - and post it on OAuth extensions...

On Mar 19, 9:01 pm, "Anton Bar (G.ho.st)" <anton...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think that the XmlHttpRequest problem was solved. There are JS
> libraries that support WebDAV:http://www.webdavsystem.com/ajax.
>
> Firewalls can a real issue.
>
> The advantages of WebDAV are:

> - Built in support on Windows and Mac (seehttp://www.mydocsonline.com/info_webfolders.html)

> - MS Office supports direct access to WebDAV

> - Loads of open source code (e.g.http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_dav.html)

>
> I tend to prefer the following solution: support the original WebDAV
> and an extension that uses HTTP GET or POST and sends the WebDAV
> commands as query parameters. In this scenario, the worst that can
> happen is that some users with extra paranoid firewalls will not be
> able to create web folders. Other features will work. The Apache
> mod_dav can be easily extended to read WebDAV commands from query
> params.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Anton
>
> On Mar 19, 8:38 pm, "Adam Rosien" <a...@rosien.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> > See the CEO of Omnidrive's comments athttp://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/zoho_omnidrive_data_standards.ph....
>
> > Omnidrive advertises a WebFS project, but the links return empty
> > pages.  Anyone know anything about it?
>

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>
> - Show quoted text -

[Adam Rosien]

What are we voting on? Atom vs. WebDAV?

.. Adam

[Anton Bar]

I'd say WebDAV vs. any other custom protocol that may be also based on Atom.

[Anton Bar (G.ho.st)]

Just noticed - OmniDrive do support WebDAV...

On Mar 19, 10:42 pm, "Anton Bar" <anton...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd say WebDAV vs. any other custom protocol that may be also based on Atom.
>

> > >  > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text -

[Adam Rosien]

I'm not trying to be too negative towards WebDAV. Perhaps we can
discuss ways to identify the supported protocols via the discovery
document. Does anyone know if there are any discovery mechanisms for
WebDAV endpoints?

.. Adam