http dav support

[James Blackwell]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 09:13:52AM +0100, Jan Hudec wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 19:19:35 -0500, James Blackwell wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 06:17:06PM -0600, John A Meinel wrote:
> > > As far as I know, read-only webdav is just plain http. It is only when
> > > you go to write that you need webdav.
> > 
> > Mostly right. One of the useful things of webdav in readonly mode is the
> > ability to get directory listings (this is why in tla one needs listing
> > files for straight http, but not readonly dav)
> 
> Unfortunately not all servers allow DAV and not all proxies forward DAV
> requests, so you can't rely on that being available.

Of course not. The question though was whether or not DAV offered
something that straight HTTP didn't. :)

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