"Geek Dead Thing of the Day: The technology called WebDAV is short for "Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning"; basically, it's an alternative to ftp for file transfer (see webdav.org). Of course, for the true geek that wants a Unix command-line way of doing WebDAV, there's a solution. It's called "cadaver". It's not brains-in-a-can, but if this isn't ILDT-worthy, what is?"