The only reason ftp is sill alive is that Microsoft for some reason refuses to ship anything else for file transfers across the Internet.
I have repeatedly tried to use webdav og sftp but it is not possible when, especially Windows server, does not ship with any alternative to ftp "out-of-the-box".
When working on a customers server its not always possible to install all kinds of software just to transfer some files.
Webdav via https is great, but Microsoft has never been able (or has never been willing to) deliver a simple client for it, across all platforms.
When using konquerer with kioslaves the only thing needed to connect to webdav is to write wedav(s):// in the adress bar. Compare that to the idiotically complicated wizard in windows make me laugh (eehh.. rage mostly :-) ). I don’t even know if it is possible to use webdav from winserver 2008, in w2k3 you had to install a lot of bullshit librarys from office, and still it was mostly broken.
Brian Simonsen
