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Re: FTP in the Finder
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Re: FTP in the Finder


  • Subject: Re: FTP in the Finder
  • From: Matt Slot <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:01:18 -0500

>He mentionned that protocols are pluggable in Mac OS X, and that support
>for AppleTalk, SMB and WebDAV, for example are currently implemented this
>way. What I'm wondering is, is there such a thing for FTP?

Repeat after me: "FTP is not a file system"

You might be able to set up something that fakes a read-only volume based
on data from an FTP site, but block level access and file locking features
are simply not supported by the protocol.

Matt

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