WebDAV

I stumbled upon WebDAV, and a small dive into led me to a collection of links/info which I wanted to dump here for the future.

WebDAV stands for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning - aiming to provide the "write" side for the primarliy "read" web world. It occupies a space between (S)FTP, Rsync on one side and Object Stores like S3 on this side of history.

For obvious reasons, like with all other protocols and solutions, we never reached a future where actual file sharing companies all built on this protocol instead of it all being closed silos.

Some useful links:

• Enabling Webdav with nginx: https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_dav_module.html
• A bookmarking solution with a webdav backend: https://floccus.org/
• The usual awesome listing: https://github.com/fstanis/awesome-webdav
• A reasonble open-source implementation (including CalDAV and CarDAV): https://sabre.io/
• The WebDAV RFC: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4918