[Lerc]

Speaking from the perspective of someone who touched WebDav and then wrote my own server alternative. WebDav is really that bad. It has a special combination of using XML to be theoretically extensible while generalised to use the lowest common denominator of features.

I can't recall the specific details, but I certainly remember the pain. Apart from the inevitable and unnecessary translation from XML to a JavaScript object. I seem to recall there were weird cases where the XML format produced a different structure for cases where directories contained a single file.

In the short term I found capturing the output of "ls -al urlpath" was vastly easier to deal with.

In the longer term I wrote a server https://github.com/Lerc/userserv It might be worth me revisiting userserv to switch to the SpockFS protocol. Currently I use a websocket backchannel to do anything more complicated than static serving.