KaraDAV – Lightweight Nextcloud compatible WebDAV server

51•indigodaddy•3w ago

Comments

WillAdams•3w ago

I really wish WebDAV were more popular --- ages ago, back when moving large files was difficult and I worked at a printing company we would have regular difficulties with customers connecting to our FTP site (on at least one occasion resulting in tears of frustration on the part of a customer).

I (stupidly) pointed out that WebDAV was natively supported by both Windows and Mac OS and was quite simple to connect to, and then burned all of my political capital at the company arguing for its adoption --- when we finally got to a meeting on it, rather than simply enable the WebDAV service on the existing FTP Server, it was presented as if I was arguing for a new server, and that said new server should come out of my department's budget....

p0w3n3d•3w ago

I wonder isn't WebDAV horrendously slow for you? I have selfhosted nextCloud and sending 1GB file was a nightmare (over WiFi). It took ages and didn't finish at the end. I did fall back to usb pendrive... I would like to have something that is not in PHP I guess, this might be the bottleneck

indigodaddy•3w ago

Maybe that's just a product of next cloud's heaviness in general and not a webdav problem? I think that might be the point of this, just a very light webdav implementation with support for nextcloud clients (for basic file functionality not all the other nextcloud features)

hommelix•3w ago

Oh ! The performance table on github is not rendered. If you look at the same page on https://fossil.kd2.org/karadav/doc/main/README.md KaraDAV is very close to apache mod_dav module and way faster than NextCloud.

> KaraDAV performance was very close to mod_dav, and NextCloud performance was incredibly poor.

  Client  KaraDAV  NextCloud  mod_dav
  Dolphin (KDE)  5 seconds  1 minute 15 seconds  3 seconds
  Thunar (GTK)  5 seconds  1 minute 50 seconds  5 seconds
  WebDAV Manager.js  4 seconds (no delete)  --  --

indigodaddy•3w ago

Are you the author?

hommelix•3w ago

No not at all. I happen to read the website a couple of weeks ago.

winstonwinston•3w ago

Sometimes the WebDAV client is to blame, especially clients provided by the OS itself, awful performance.

Nowdays i just use (encrypted) SMB over the internet, performance is great and it works on all major systems without additional software. Basically the best and easiest way to transfer (large) files over the network.

lern_too_spel•3w ago

I use ngx_http_dav. It is faster than samba on my network. I also don't run PHP anything.

Same Surface, Different Weight

The Rise of Spec Driven Development

The first good Raspberry Pi Laptop

Seas to Rise Around the World – But Not in Greenland

Will Future Generations Think We're Gross?

State Department will delete Xitter posts from before Trump returned to office

Show HN: Verifiable server roundtrip demo for a decision interruption system

Impl Rust – Avro IDL Tool in Rust via Antlr

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

minikeyvalue

Neomacs: GPU-accelerated Emacs with inline video, WebKit, and terminal via wgpu

Show HN: Moli P2P – An ephemeral, serverless image gallery (Rust and WebRTC)

How I grow my X presence?

What's the cost of the most expensive Super Bowl ad slot?

What if you just did a startup instead?

Hacking up your own shell completion (2020)

Show HN: Gorse 0.5 – Open-source recommender system with visual workflow editor

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

Local Agent Bench: Test 11 small LLMs on tool-calling judgment, on CPU, no GPU

Show HN: AboutMyProject – A public log for developer proof-of-work

Expertise, AI and Work of Future [video]

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

PID Controller

SpaceX Rocket Generates 100GW of Power, or 20% of US Electricity

Kubernetes MCP Server

I Built a Movie Recommendation Agent to Solve Movie Nights with My Wife

What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won't end

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

OldMapsOnline

What It's Like to Be a Worm