From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 14:16:39 -0800 From: Roman Shaposhnik In-reply-to: <4f34febc0811081115i2a41eb9ew8d99030cfcc8bdf@mail.gmail.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-id: <859C5745-8864-4740-84CF-878A365067AA@sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <8ccc8ba40811080411h4a47a1x41178094552578c2@mail.gmail.com> <4f34febc0811081115i2a41eb9ew8d99030cfcc8bdf@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 36903586-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Nov 8, 2008, at 11:15 AM, John Barham wrote: >>> It seems that MS is pushing webdav hard. >> >> that's what's needed when heavy things run out of fuel. > > Even as a potential substitute for ftp webdav is a farce. Speaking > from personal experience, the amount of XML you need to generate for a > directory listing is at least 20 times the size of the equivalent ftp > listing, and then you twiddle your thumbs waiting for the webdav > client to parse and render it. But think about this: why would you care if you have this: http://noedler.de/projekte/wdfs/ Why would anyone care about what's getting pushed to the wire? Thanks, Roman.