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WebDAV with a Quota?
gik asks: "I'm in the need for a quota-managing, multi-account capable, class-1 WebDAV server (for remote file storage for clients). I've been researching WebDAV for a long long time now, and have only found one all-in-one implementation: Xythos webfile server, which is a very costly (but a very good) solution. I know that some online storage companies use a hacked Apache, but as anyone who's worked with WebDAV knows, doing this with Apache can be hard. So I'm asking: Does anyone out there know of a good WebDAV server with (hopefully) quota management that is as reliable and free as Apache? Oracle's IFS, Novell Netware, and the like are acceptable as possible candidates."
Yes, Frontpage has allowed upload of content through HTTP for a long time (it may even have been the first WYSIWYG HTML editor to support this). However, the mechanism it used to use was proprietary, had gaping security holes, and it had very limited functionality. (I don't know what Frontpage uses these days, but Windows has WebDAV client support built-in, although it has some limitations.)
WebDAV attempts to standardize this kind of functionality and make it available to many more programs and across platforms. WebDAV is sufficiently functional, complete, and efficient to serve both as a network file system protocol and as a network-based version control system.