From: Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] WebDAV file system
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 02:45:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e37d02a183b422d3963023618770a396@collyer.net> (raw)
> the way yet another thing gets hacked in on top of another hack and
> so on ...
I thought FTP was an overly-complex botch of a protocol, but when I
was told what WebDAV was (HTTP as [lousy] remote file system
protocol), I felt sick to my stomach. Apple claim that they developed
this abomination, but they could have just used IMAP, which clearly
already is a [rotten] remote file system protocol but doesn't know it.
HTTP was a hack to transport the much worse hack of HTML and now
they're piling kludges on top of hacks. (Is there really any point to
using XML? Maybe I'm missing the obvious, but I don't see that it
buys one anything.)
How many awful, truncated remote file system protocols are people
going to invent before they just bite the bullet and use a real one?
next reply other threads:[~2002-10-30 10:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-30 10:45 Geoff Collyer [this message]
2002-10-30 13:17 ` rob pike
2002-10-30 13:27 ` Lucio De Re
2002-10-30 18:11 ` Jim Choate
2002-10-30 14:40 ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-10-30 19:13 ` John E. Barham
2002-10-30 20:34 ` Dan Cross
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-04 18:49 Charles Forsyth
2002-11-04 15:15 Skip Tavakkolian
2002-10-31 14:38 Skip Tavakkolian
2002-11-04 18:38 ` Peter Downs
2002-11-05 18:47 ` Dan Cross
2002-10-31 5:26 okamoto
2002-10-31 5:15 okamoto
2002-10-31 6:35 ` Jim Choate
2002-10-31 4:17 Skip Tavakkolian
2002-10-31 13:58 ` Jim Choate
2002-10-31 18:21 ` Dan Cross
2002-11-01 11:26 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-11-01 20:50 ` Dan Cross
2002-11-01 23:30 ` Roman V. Shaposhnick
2002-10-31 2:59 okamoto
2002-10-31 5:18 ` Jim Choate
2002-10-30 18:21 rob pike, esq.
2002-10-30 22:00 ` Jim Choate
2002-10-30 17:21 Russ Cox
2002-10-30 21:55 ` Jim Choate
2002-10-30 15:42 Skip Tavakkolian
2002-10-30 9:37 C H Forsyth
2002-10-30 8:55 okamoto
2002-10-30 8:31 Charles Forsyth
2002-10-30 13:14 ` rob pike
2002-10-30 14:16 ` Jim Choate
2002-10-30 6:29 Russ Cox
2002-10-30 11:06 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-10-30 4:10 Skip Tavakkolian
2002-10-30 3:12 John E. Barham
2002-10-30 5:53 ` Jim Choate
2002-10-30 6:14 ` John E. Barham
2002-10-30 14:13 ` Jim Choate
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