#Os x server webdav full#
#Os x server webdav windows#

PROPFIND /.metadata_never_index - Redundant.

PROPFIND /Backups.backupdb - OS/X tries it twice, just to be sure.

PROPFIND /Backups.backupdb - Same as before.

PROPFIND /.metadata_never_index - haven't looked up what this means.

PROPFIND /Backups.backupdb - Backup configuration.

#Os x server webdav windows#

It's really annoyhing and OS/X does it on windows shares too _filename This file is used to store additional meta-data for filesystem that don't support this. OS/X stores resource data in a file of the format. PROPFIND /.Spotlight-V100 - Looking for spotlight configuration.

PROPFIND /mach_kernel - It's looking for the kernel image, not sure why.PROPFIND - Exact same query, except now it's asking for quota information (could have been merged with step #2).OPTIONS - First it checks, as it should if this is a valid WebDAV server.Here's a sample of the HTTP requests Finder makes when it connects to a new

A good non-fee alternative that does this much better for OS X is This is especially noticable in low-latency situations (e.g.: over the The second problem is that it makes suchĪ massive amount of HTTP requests, that as a result it's quite a slow client. Two big problems with Finder are that it leaves a lot of files behind (such as So it will seem as if the PUT request was succesful, but the file will end upįinder will throw an error if an attempt is made to create or copy softlinks. When using this with Apache + FastCGI PHP completely drops the request body, It was recently reported that a development release (1.3.8) no longer had this Nginx and Lighttpd respond with 411 Length Required, The only server I've seen so far that handles this reasonably well Little used HTTP feature, and therefore not implemented in a bunch of

#Os x server webdav full#

Fill in the full url to the webdav server, and hit connectįinder uses Transfer-Encoding: Chunked in PUT request bodies.

Open the “Go” menu and press “Connect to Server” (or press Apple-K).

If the server does not supports locks, Finder will operate in read-only mode. Your server must have Locking support in order to allow a user Posting a comment like this is just like a little kid shouting 'look at me.' It has no content other than self-aggrandisement and is a completely unsupported criticism.Finder is OS X's built-in WebDAV client. If you don't know, then please just keep the whinging to yourself. If there is a problem with Exchange support you know about, just tell us what it is. What's the point of saying there is a problem with the exchange support and that the problem is 'it doesn't work.'? What are you twelve? Guessing by the 'blow leopard' comment I suppose you are. I don't come to this forum to hear people like you shout about nothing. What I find even more disappointing is comments like this one that say pretty much nothing at all and are just negative junk without any analysis or anything. Word Mail) crashing or slowing down.Īpple really needs to fix this fast, or they'll have a 'Vista-downgrade-frenzy' situation. To add insult to injury, many up-graders are also now having to deal with various apps (e.g. People are understandably p***ed off that they have wasted money upgrading to 'Blow Leopard' for a heavily advertised feature that it appears doesn't actually work. For some comments on how 'competently' Snow Leopard incorporates Exchange Support, see the eleven pages of comments on Apple's discussion forums.!īasically, Exchange Support in Mail doesn't work (though, stupidly, it seems to work fine on the iPhone).