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Accessing WebDAV as a Filesystem With davfs2

By Juliet Kemp

“I had a request this week to check out davfs2. This neat open
source utility allows you to connect to a WebDAV server as a
regular filesystem, meaning that applications that don’t support
WebDAV can still access resources shared via WebDAV. Basically, it
provides another protocol for mount to use.

“davfs2 is available as a Debian/Ubuntu package, so it’s easy to
install with apt-get install davfs2. Once installed, you can
connect via the commandline straight away, if you have sudo
access:”


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