SSL certificates can be purchased from various certificate authorities, such as GoDaddy, Thawte or VeriSign. WebDAV over SSL does not work in Windows 7 with a self-signed certificate on the web server, unless that certificate is added to the certificate store on every computer that wishes to use the connection.Ī certificate from a trusted root certificate authority is needed for normal use cases, or otherwise any attempt to map a WebDAV folder to a network drive will fail with undescriptive error messages, such as: An unexpected network error occured. This is probably the biggest stumbling block for most users, and therefore I am going to point it out it first: The setup turns out to be simple as well, but is not very well documented. The good news is that it works and, contrary to most comments on the internet, it is not painfully slow, but actually quite snappy. While setting up WebDAV over HTTP and getting it to work is pretty straightforward on most operating systems, many attempts to make it work over SSL with Windows 7 appear to be like the battle of David versus Goliath.
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