Secure web based file access

Hi list, this is slightly OT, sorry for that, but the most knowledgeable Linux users seem to be on this list. I'm looking for a way (software?) to give users secure web-based access to their home directory. I've been looking at apache + mod_dav, but I was wondering if anyone can point me to alternatives. Users would need to be able to upload/download files from inside their webbrowser, without ftp. Any info would be appreciated (please answer off-list, so as not to clutter the list with non-SuSE specific talk). TIA Stefan