Webdav and CURL a question for UNIX geeks

[obelix]

Ah another of my streaming questions together. I've just setup a webdav server on apache2 on OS X and I have a question regarding webdav. Is it possible to use webdav in conjunction with CURL to upload a file? I know the command in curl is...

curl -T file.png http://localhost/web-dav/file.png

But I keep getting:
The requested method PUT is not allowed for the URL

If I could find a version of mod_put that could work with OS X that would be nice.. but so far no such luck... so webdav is my only option. Any ideas guys?

 

[Westside guy]

DAV is a completely different protocol than PUT. You can find a lot more info on webdav.org.

PUT has been directly supported by Apache for a number of years now - no module is required. It's just a matter of configuring httpd.conf correctly. But enabling it is a good way to get your system compromised if you're not careful.

Edit: I was just thinking that this would be overkill anyway. You could accomplish the same thing with scp. You'd probably want to set up a specific user account for this and only this, and use a public/private key pair (w/o password) and restrict access to just the particular IP addresses involved. I'm sure that's possible with OS X, although off hand I'm not sure how to do it. 😀 Did something similar on Linux a few years ago. Maybe someone whose done this more recently, or has more time on their hands to figure it out 😉 , will chime in.