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I am an experienced C++ developer, but a newbie to this site. I have worked on cross-platform GUI tools, and also on file transfer (using UDP).

I notice that Webdav suport has been mentioned as an aspiration in these forums in the past, but has not progressed. I would be interested in developing this in Filezilla.

How would we proceed with moving this forwards?

George

Thanks very much for your offer.

I'd like to invite you to join the #filezilla IRC channel on chat.freenode.net for further discussion. I usually hang around the channel 24/7. My timezone is UTC+1 and am mentally present during the evenings (local time) and most of the day on weekends.

I went into IRC a cople of times, but didn't see you. Is your user name there the same (botg)?

My IRC nickname is codesquid.

I suggest you use this:

Neon Library (opensource), in C, full support for WebDAV Protocol, includding SSL/TLS encryption.
Neon is easy to compile, not too much headache / dependencies.
http://www.webdav.org/neon/

### Example:

ne_session *sess = ne_session_create("http", "www.example.com", 80);
ne_request *req = ne_request_create(sess, "MKCOL", "/foo/bar/");
if (ne_request_dispatch(req)) {
printf("Request failed: %s\n", ne_get_error(sess));
}
ne_request_destroy(req);

### Would be very easy to have it working.
You only need to map webdav commands to ftp commands.
Example:
MKDIR in FTP = MKCOL in WebDAV

To see all WebDAV commands I suggest you look also here, which is very stable command line WebDAV client:
http://www.webdav.org/cadaver/

All these WebDAV comands can be mapped to ftp?

All? Unlikely. But some of the most important ones can.