![]() ![]() This blog post answers that question and covers our findings when experimenting with WebDAV. However, we had to evaluate how feasible this project was. The above makes clear that WebDAV is available on every major platform, so we wanted to experiment with making IPFS over WebDAV a thing.For all we knew, it could be the sweet spot protocol making IPFS more widely and easily usable. Both platforms offer more apps that support WebDAV.īelow a screenshot of IPFS over WebDAV in Cx File Explorer on Android. For iOS there is WebDAV Navigator (opens new window).Alternatively ther is also Cx File Explorer (opens new window). For Android, there is Solid Explorer (opens new window) which offers very good WebDAV support.Third-party file browsers do provide more functionality in their app stores. The stock file browsers you get there are quite limited and don't offer many (or any) special feature. The story on mobile is a little different. KDE gained WebDAV support (opens new window) in 2002.īelow a screenshot of IPFS over WebDAV in Dolphin (KDE's/Plasma's default file browser).For the comparison we can look at Gnome (Gvfs is their IO layer) and KDE (KIO is their IO layer). In Linux there are various desktop environments. ![]() Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger added secure access to WebDAV. Mac has had WebDAV support for a long time too, in various degrees. Windows has had WebDAV support since at least Windows 98 (opens new window) and continues to have it to this very day.īelow a screenshot of IPFS over WebDAV in Windows Explorer This meant building support for it was not too complex which resulted in very broad platform WebDAV support. It's an open standard implemented on top of the existing HTTP protocol. WebDAV has a very long history (opens new window). Let's take a look at why such an ancient protocol could be a good fit for IPFS purposes. What WebDAV has achieved here is where IPFS needs to be to. This technology, over time, found it's way into every major operating system. It effectively allows managing your files on your webserver straight from your file explorer as if they were local files. A user could access WebDAV enabled webservers in their native filebrowser and other locally running applications. The intent is for webserver to also act as fileservers. WebDAV (opens new window) is a protocol that extends the HTTP protocol.
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