More about WebDav

Having said good things about the WebDav earlier, I also have to point out that at times we do miss out retry and parellel connection facilities available in advanced web clients like CuteFTP or FileZilla.

Here is a very cool Java library (OnJava article) that plugs into the Java's protocol handler mechanism and provides the retry and parallel connection facilities to HTTP connections. With this one should be able to build a cool WebDAV Client that is as good as any modern FTP client.

WebDav and File Transfer

As FTP is blocked at the firewall level in more corporations, we switched to WebDav (used the Apache 2's Dav module) for File Transfers between our offices. With WebDav, We also got an additional advantage of using the Windows OS's built in WebDav client (Web folders) rather than having to install an FTP Client or in most cases just use the Web Browser. Once the folder is setup, it is simply one more folder in the Windows Explorer. Since we use Apache on the server, we can rely on the industry standard Web Server and have to worry less about security issues.

Chairs we are looking at for Bangalore Office

Here are the pictures of the chair we are looking at for Bangalore office


Chairs