Re: Mozilla editor and DAV

Stig Bakken wrote:

> IMHO, WebDAV definitely has its place in a filesystem implementation.

It'd be convenient, but think about the security problems: given existing HTTP
authentication protocols, the filesystem code would have to have the cleartext
password of each user.

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Received on Wednesday, 25 August 1999 12:48:16 UTC