YummyFTP support Webdav?

[rmcellig]

Does Yummy FTP support WebDav? What I am trying to do is mount a folder that exists on the FTP server I usually connect to. This way I can just drag and drop files from the folder to my desktop or for that matter wherever I like.

[JD]

No, Yummy does not (yet) support WebDAV. However, I'm unsure how this is related to your question, since WebDAV servers can be mounted in the Finder already.

[rmcellig]

Thanks for your quick reply. All I want to be able to do is mount a folder (from my FTP server site), on the desktop, if this makes any sense.

Thanks so much!!


Randy

[JD]

You can do that in the Finder too, using the Connect To Server option from the Go menu. The only restriction is that you cannot upload to the mounted FTP server. This has nothing to do with Yummy FTP, though.

[rmcellig]

Thanks!! That worked. Happy New Year!!!

[dfs]

Says guru " However, I'm unsure how this is related to your question, since WebDAV servers can be mounted in the Finder already." This is technically true, but at least in the case of iDisk if you mount it on the Finder and try to use it, very evil things often happen (spinning beach balls, even Finder crashes). I use my iDisk for backups of a very large and complex bunch of files, Apple Backup is unspeakably bad. At the moment, Transmit (which is WebDAV-friendly) is the only reliable tool I have for working with my iDisk, although in lots of other ways Transmit is inferior to Yummy. Among other drawbacks,  "manually" is one of the dirtiest words in the English language, and Transmit doesn't have an equivalent of Yummy's automatic synch feature. I've discussed with Jason the possibility of making Yummy WebDAV friendly, he told me quite a while ago that it was in the works, so I am very disappointed that no visible progress is being made on this issue. I am not quite sure he grasps the urgency of this issue. As far as I am concerned, whatever FTP client software is the first to feature both WebDAV awareness and auto-synching will win the whole race. This subject is very very frustrating to me.

[JD]

Will it help if I remove 'guru' from my description?

Honestly, I only put that there as a bit of a joke. It doesn't mean anything.

I DO hear you about WebDAV. I have a few people ask for it now and again, and I HAVE made some progress with it but it's not easy - for me anyway. It's a whole new protocol (HTTP) plus WebDAV on top. That's a LOT of changes.

I do admit to being sidetracked a lot, though. The biggest time loser of all is bug report investigation. For example, just recently there was a big thread on synchs which failed really miserably - I can't possibly ignore that... if there is a bug in Yummy which potentially affects most users then I have to take it seriously, investigate and fix it. This one bug has taken a month of my time, but it was worth it because there really was a bug in Yummy. And just recently, of course, was another time sink - Leopard.

WebDAV is very high on my To Do list. All I can say is that I am committed to providing it, as soon as I can. Just please keep in mind that there is only one person here at Yummy Software - me - and I am already stretched well past the limit