Re: Finder plug-ins?

FROM : j o a r
DATE : Mon Jul 17 07:44:07 2006

On 17 jul 2006, at 03.05, Fabio Lossotti wrote:

> 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


Is that really true? I kind of doubt that it is, it sounds too weird. 
Should WebDAV, or the WebDAV implementation in Mac OS X, not support 
in-place duplication of 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.


I think what you would do is implement a new file system (Just like 
WebDAV, FTP, AFP, NFS, SMB, etc. are file systems on Mac OS X):

<http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1242.html>

The advantages of a file system, compared with a plugin to Finder, 
should be obvious.

j o a r