On Oct 29, 2003, at 8:55 AM, George Gambill wrote:

> Chris,
>
> For some reason I have been unable to retrieve your PDF.
>
> When I click on http://idisk.mac.com/canyonrat/Public I get a page not
> found.
>
> When I try http://idisk.mac.com/canyonrat I get a login screen 
> requesting a
> password (and login ID).
>
> Any ideas what I am doing wrong???

I can see how this is confusing. There is no way you can tell by 
looking at the URL that this is a WebDAV share. That may be a design 
misfeature on the part of the Apache crew. (I think WebDAV comes from 
Apache). There is some project on SourceForge that enables you to click 
on WebDAV links and that opens them in a window. Last time I tried to 
install it, there was some problem with building it for PPC.

I just use cadaver to access WebDav shares. I goes like this:

~/: cadaver
DAV/> open http://idisk.mac.com/canyonrat/Public
(some message saying it opened the share)
DAV/> ls
(a listing of what is on the share)
DAV/> get FreeSWAN_GUIDE.pdf
(a little curses animation of a DL)
DAV/> exit
~/

Other than emulating bash rather than the, IMHO, better shells, cadaver 
works well. If you're a GUI type, check out the draggy-droppy thing on 
SourceForge.