Client Interoperability
Description
This section is from the "Version Control with Subversion" book, by Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick and C. Michael Pilato. Also available from Amazon: Version Control with Subversion.
All WebDAV clients fall into one of three categories—standalone applications, file-explorer extensions, or filesystem implementations. These categories broadly define the types of WebDAV functionality available to users. Table C.1, “Common WebDAV Clients” gives our categorization and a quick description of some common pieces of WebDAV-enabled software. More details about these software offerings, as well as their general category, can be found in the sections that follow.
Table C.1. Common WebDAV Clients
| Software | Type | Windows | Mac | Linux | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Photoshop | Standalone WebDAV application | X | Image editing software, allowing direct opening from, and writing to, WebDAV URLs | ||
| Cadaver | Standalone WebDAV application | X | X | Command-line WebDAV client supporting file transfer, tree, and locking operations | |
| DAV Explorer | Standalone WebDAV application | X | X | X | Java GUI tool for exploring WebDAV shares |
| Macromedia Dreamweaver | Standalone WebDAV application | X | Web production software able to directly read from and write to WebDAV URLs | ||
| Microsoft Office | Standalone WebDAV application | X | Office productivity suite with several components able to directly read from and write to WebDAV URLs | ||
| Microsoft Web Folders | File-explorer WebDAV extension | X | GUI file explorer program able to perform tree operations on a WebDAV share | ||
| GNOME Nautilus | File-explorer WebDAV extension | X | GUI file explorer able to perform tree operations on a WebDAV share | ||
| KDE Konqueror | File-explorer WebDAV extension | X | GUI file explorer able to perform tree operations on a WebDAV share | ||
| Mac OS X | WebDAV filesystem implementation | X | Operating system has built-in support for mounting WebDAV shares. | ||
| Novell NetDrive | WebDAV filesystem implementation | X | Drive-mapping program for assigning Windows drive letters to a mounted remote WebDAV share | ||
| SRT WebDrive | WebDAV filesystem implementation | X | File transfer software which, among other things, allows the assignment of Windows drive letters to a mounted remote WebDAV share | ||
| davfs2 | WebDAV filesystem implementation | X | Linux file system driver that allows you to mount a WebDAV share |
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