[Interwiki] webdav vs FTP

[Bayle S. <bs...@uc...>]

> When Alex says that what he wants to do is
> 
> > I want to be able to grep and cat, find and touch and cp and mv,
> > use Emacs or vi as I please, etc.  As far as I know, WebDAV is 
> > currently my better bet.
> 
> My question becomes, if we're talking about the server side, what is it that
> is being sought that doesn't work with FTP and SSH, for example?  This
> sounds a lot like (non-client) creation and administrative function, and it
> is dealing with the server-side information architecture, storage
> structures, etc.   That seems like WebDAV as HTTP-carried file-system
> access.  Well, OK, but what's the gain in terms of wikiness?

After I read Dennis's post, and after spending a few minutes getting
over my embarassment at not realizing myself that FTP can already do
a lot of what I want to use WebDav for (except versioning; but I can't
do that with WebDav yet either, I need WebDav+DeltaV), I decided to
try and find out how WebDav is different from FTP.

I put what I found on:

http://communitywiki.org/WebDavVsFtp

-- bayle


p.s. hey this page would be good for ProtocolsWiki...