>The state of dav clients is a mess, FWIW last I checked, getting it to work sanely on Linux, either with Gnome, or davfs -- was easy enough. Trying to get it to work reasonably from Windows was hopeless -- I never tried OS X -- I'd hoped that they actually had a usable client.
Nonsense, the reason I use WebDAV when non-tech people need a file sharing service within my company time and time again is because it works so easy on Windows and Macintosh. Their two favorite OS'.
On windows you mount it as a regular network share, you can even authenticate with AD if it's in your network. On Mac you just Cmd+K in finder and use the same URL as on Windows. On Linux I've recently learned it's equally simple.
This works over TLS1.2? Without any extra software needed in Windows? Note that last I checked, clients were running Windows XP -- maybe this is fixed/improved in 7/8/8.1/10?
[ed: I seem to recall I had some issues with Windows 7 as well, but I may be misremembering things. Does seem that WebDAV is now properly bundled with Windows, and https should work as long as the certificate matches. Apparently Windows will refuse basic auth (but do digest, which really isn't that much of an improvement) over standard http -- but as part of the point is the added security of simple transport encryption over SSL -- I can't imagine why anyone would want to expose WebDAV (other than read-only, perhaps) over anything other than SSL]
As for it working in OS X -- I haven't tried it -- and my impression was that it did work. Apparently others in this thread have different experiences...
Nonsense, the reason I use WebDAV when non-tech people need a file sharing service within my company time and time again is because it works so easy on Windows and Macintosh. Their two favorite OS'.
On windows you mount it as a regular network share, you can even authenticate with AD if it's in your network. On Mac you just Cmd+K in finder and use the same URL as on Windows. On Linux I've recently learned it's equally simple.