I have setup Owncloud and I want to use webdav to manage and access files. I prefer it over a samba share of a sftp user because of user rights and then I'll have .
It works accept streaming of video/audio. I asked it on the owncloud forum but they don't know for sure if it supports streaming.
Does webdav support streaming?
PS. And if it does can anybody point me in the direction to configure it with nginx.
Best Answer
I'm not sure about what you think of when you say "streaming".
WebDAV allows file transfers. It also allows partial file transfers (as specified in the HTTP standard).
Hence if your application wants to transfer media files to the WebDAV server, this is supported! And all "media streams" I can think of are - at the end - just files. (Expect data streams through special purpose protocols like RTP, Skype, etc)
Since WebDAV also supports partial reads and writes of files it's also possible to only transfer parts of a large media file (read: part of the stream).
The WebDAV implementation of OwnCloud is "sabre/dav". It's a very complete implementation of the WebDAV standard. On the other hand you need to use some client-side implementation to access OwnCloud over WebDAV - depending on the quality of this client implementation you should not run into any problems when transfering (parts of) large files...