[HN Gopher] KaraDAV - Lightweight Nextcloud compatible WebDAV se...
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KaraDAV - Lightweight Nextcloud compatible WebDAV server
Author : indigodaddy
Score : 36 points
Date : 2026-01-11 12:50 UTC (10 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| WillAdams wrote:
| 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).
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| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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
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| indigodaddy wrote:
| Are you the author?
| hommelix wrote:
| No not at all. I happen to read the website a couple of
| weeks ago.
| winstonwinston wrote:
| Sometimes the WebDAV client is to blame, especially clients
| provided by the OS itself, awful performance.
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| 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.
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