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July 18, 2003
For what it’s worth, WebDAV seems pretty cool. I still need to work on the authentication stuff, but as soon as that’s resolved I should be able to edit my site easily from work. Thanks, Windows XP, for supporting WebDAV right smack dab in the OS, like mapping any old drive.
…just need to get security working properly.
I just discovered WebDAV with my new host, it seems pretty slick. One thing, though: how insecure is it? It seems almost too easy, I even got it to work through the CheckPoint firewall here.
WebDAV is as secure as your webserver is. It got a bad name early on because of a vulnerability in IIS with it, but it’s actually just a standard HTTP extension. You can use it with HTTPS, too, if you want. I’m still working out how to do authentication with it via Apache, but it looks ideal for offering access for friends to update their sites without using FTP.
Slick, as plaintext passwords over HTTP is bad. Still, FTP has been adopted pretty well, we run NetManage’s suite that builds it in as a network client component and works with windows explorer. I still use command line FTP, but that’s just what I’m used to.