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Re:Shutting down public FTP services by mschuster91 on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @06:39PM (#14198815)
Well, there is WebDAV. At least Windows and OS X support it (Windows from Explorer, OS X from Finder), no idea about mainstream Linux/Android/iOS support though. Also, no idea if WebDAV can deal with Unix or Windows permissions, but I did not have that problem when I set up a WebDAV server a year ago.

IIRC WebDAV uses GET for retrieval, so the read parts can be cached by an intermediate proxy and the write part be relayed to the server.

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Re:Shutting down public FTP services by donatj on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @06:49PM (#14198902)
As someone who once tried to write a WebDAV server I cannot with good convince recommend it. It's Bizarre extended HTTP protocol that should not exist.
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Re:Shutting down public FTP services by mschuster91 on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @06:52PM (#14198928)
Out of curiosity: why did you try to write your own WebDAV server? Apache ships a pretty much works-OOTB implementation - the only thing I never managed to get working was to assign uploaded files the UID/GID of the user who authenticated via HTTP auth to an LDAP server.
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Re:Shutting down public FTP services by donatj on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @07:23PM (#14199137)
More specifically a CalDAV server which is a bizarre extension of WebDAV that shouldn't exist. We wanted one to connect to our internal identity server. That project was abandoned.
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Re:Shutting down public FTP services by carussell on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @07:46PM (#14199305)
Related: "I Hope WebDAV Dies"[1]

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10213657

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Re:Shutting down public FTP services by eikenberry on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @07:35PM (#14199226)
Linux has great webdav support with the fuse filesystem, davfs. I used it with my box.net account and it worked fine.

http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/davfs2

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