Mount HTTP Server As File System

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I have a machine on which I wish to mount multiple remote servers to access them all centrally. For remote Linux based systems I am using SSHFS which works fine. But for Windows systems, or systems without SSH, they all have some form of HTTP server installed sharing the files (so they all have directory browsing enabled).

Can I mount a HTTP server as a local file system like SSHFS, so I can have all these remote servers mounted locally and presented in a uniform manner?

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You can do this using WebDAV. This is an HTTP extension that is supported by most web servers, including IIS and Apache. WebDAV can be mounted in linux via the davfs2 FUSE module.

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Sshfs breaks symlinks from SFTP server

To transform remote absolute (starting with /) symlinks to be relative to the sshfs mount point, use the follow_symlinks option:

sshfs -o follow_symlinks ...

The transform_symlinks option does nothing for me, see this issue.

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One option missing from your list is Vim's netrw plugin (first mentioned by @godlygeek in the comments), which ships with Vim. You can :edit scp://hostname/path/to/file, or even specify such URL on launch: $ vim ftp://hostname/path/to/file. It supports multiple protocols, and handles the download / upload transparently (on each :write), while keeping the original filename, so filetype detection etc. still work.

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