From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] WebDAV file system From: Geoff Collyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 02:45:13 -0800 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 11dc0ce6-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > 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?