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WebDAV is like the 12V plug in cars.

Its certainly not the optimal design, but it exists in pretty much all cars, so we use it because it's there, and because of it's universal presence, its also hard to replace.

The sad part is, in a world that is increasingly mobile first, and computing devices move in and out of network coverage, HTTP based protocols actually handle frequent disconnects/reconnects much better than something like SMB.

For my personal backup needs, running from my phone, WebDAV is king. S3 would probably be better, protocol wise, but i can't have that in a simple "wrapper" that simply exposes existing files, and WebDAV works perfectly fine for LAN anyway.