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2025-03-27 05:34 UTC
@jimluther very very cool!
Someday I hope to find and thank your colleague who fixed WebDAV in the Finder. :)
https://tidbits.com/2012/06/18/mac-os-x-10-7-4-finally-fixes-webdav-and-idisk/
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@jimluther@techhub.social 2025-03-27 17:45
@atlauren That probably deserves another thread. The short version of that story is… I was the engineer working on webdavfs from the end of Mac OS X 10.1 through the 10.4 updates. I left the Mac OS X file systems team right as 10.4 shipped because I was told that none of the things I wanted to improve in the code were going to be approved, and I’d be assigned to work on other things. What made the Finder *seem* slow was a limitation of HTTP. Entire files that had been written to had to be pushed up to the server with a PUT request when the file was closed. That time of pushing an entire file up to the server when a file had been written to and closed is what made the Finder seem unresponsive. 1/2