On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 08:38 AM, John Beimler wrote:
I've found that WebDAV works much better than smb for file sharing on our WAN, the underlying http is much more tolerant to the latency and packet drops than SMB.
There is indeed merit to this. SMB is a chatty protocol, also. I *think*, IIRC, that SMB cannot go further than 16 hops under normal conditions but WebDAV only has the limits of http (which is like what, 255 hops?)
Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm a WebDAV newb) but you can't open a file for writing with WebDAV, right? I mean, you fetch a file, write it, and upload it back to the server essentially, correct?
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