SSL support for webdav is not available on Mac OS X, but it is possible to tunnel webdav over ssh. One can set up the tunnel as follows:
$ ssh -fN -L8080:localhost:80 webdavserver
$ mkdir /Volumes/mnt
$ mount_webdav localhost:8080/Users /Volumes/mnt
Where webdavserver is the hostname of your webdav server, and you want to access the /Users folder on your local machine via the path /Volumes/mnt. You must have an account on webdavserver.
When you are done, clean up as follows (comments noted with #, commands with $):
# unmount the webdav mount
$ umount /Volumes/mnt
# remove the directory
$ rmdir /Volumes/mnt
# assign the variable named pid the process id of the ssh
# tunnel process. do this by running the ps command and
# use the awk program to filter out the awk process and
# to print the process id of the ssh process as identified
# by the string ssh -fN -L ...
$ pid=`ps -x|awk "/awk/{ next; } \
/ssh -fN -L$8080:localhost:80 webdavserver/ {print \\$1; }"`
# if the value in pid is greater than 2, the kill that process
# It's value should really only be 0 or some other number much
# greater than 1. This just safe guards us from killing the Darwin
# init process.
$ [ ${pid:-0} -gt 2 ] && kill $pid
But what if your Network Preferences are configured with a proxy setting? Well, one would think you could just add localhost to the proxy bypass settings list. However, due to a bug in mount_webdav, the exception localhost will be ignored.
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