Finder plug-ins?

FROM : Fabio Lossotti
DATE : Mon Jul 17 03:05:47 2006

How can the Finder be extended to allow perusal of remote virtual
collections?

The WebDAV concept is a good one, but it simply doesn't scale very well
due to inefficiencies.  For example, to duplicate a file causes the
file to be downloaded to the client from the server then uploaded back
to the server with a new name ("copy" appended).  That's a lot of
unnecessary traffic, and doesn't work well for large files.

So is there a way to extend the Finder so that the user can connect to
a Volume, but have that be a client-side custom component that handles
the client-to-server communication?  I have never seen any docs on
building such extensions to the Finder.

FL



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