Re: PROPFIND requests from gnome-vfs?

[Sander Vesik <sander_traveling yahoo co uk>]

 --- Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote: 
> On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 09:20, Dan Winship wrote:
> > > Maybe we should have a mean to allow http-only in gnome-vfs (add a
> > > specific webdav:// method ?)
> > 
> > Or at least have a programmatic way to turn webdav off; many (most?) of
> > the PROPFINDs the kde people are noticing are probably coming from
> > galeon, which I assume doesn't actually do the special webdav browsing.
> 
> I think the first question is why, when gnome-vfs is asked to,
> say, read http://www.gnome.org/index.html it does a PROPFIND on
> the URL first. My first impression is that gnome-vfs frequently
> does a PROPFIND for no good reason at all.
> 
> (I doubt that it has any effect at all on the web server, but
> it certainly doesn't improve the performance of the application,
> especially if it waits for the result of the PROPFIND before
> actually retrieving the URL.)
> 

Probably lack of separation between http as used for "conventional" web 
browsing and as an access method for webdav. Which might be a neat thing 
to do for an application where you start off with a 'this is going to be 
a downlaod and then edit' and upgrade to webdav if possible (though its still
questionable behaviour), but quite definately a bug for a generic library 
that should just do what it is told to without second-quessing its instructions. 

> Regards,
>                                        Owen
> 

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