[Using Sakai] WebDAV & Sakai

[Alex Ballesté]

Well, we don't have many users that uses it but those how use it do it a lot. Removing references from reources tool or deprecate it sounds to me  a bit drastic...

Alex

On 13 de febrer de 2015 21.50.40 CET, Charles Severance <csev at umich.edu> wrote:
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>On Feb 13, 2015, at 2:08 PM, Marshall Feldman <marsh at uri.edu> wrote:
>
>> Right, but a central part of my point is that if WebDAV is reduced to
>up & downloading, then it's not much different from FTP, rsync, and
>similar alternatives. This raises 2 issues: (1) why bother with WebDAV,
>since it's known to be problematic on the client side and apparently,
>since it can't be fully implemented easily, on the server side too; use
>one of the alternatives instead. (2) If it's limited WebDAV, with only
>some of full WebDAV's capabilities, then this needs to be stated
>clearly; don't say "Sakai supports WebDAV," and then after someone like
>me wastes an afternoon trying to get a certain WebDAV feature working,
>say "Oh, but not that feature of WebDAV."
>
>
>WebDav is unfortunately  moving target - particularly the webdav
>implementations built into the various operating systems.  It is why
>CyberDuck is what we recommend - CyberDuck is much more consistent over
>time in its use of WebDav features.
>
>When we first put WebDav into Sakai in 2005 - we did it to solve the
>use case of a folder of data to be dragged and dropped since back then
>browsers could not handle drag and drop.
>
>And back in 2005 - the WebDAV clients in Apple and Windows were not the
>complex mess that they are now.   In a sense now that we have drag-and
>drop in Resources, WebDav is no longer essential for Sakai.
>
>Perhaps we should just deprecate it in Sakai 11 and remove any mention
>of it from the UI.  There is no other LMS on the planet that does
>WebDav that I know of.
>
>/Chuck
>
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