Re: slow URI latency issue ...

[Dave Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>]

On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 02:13, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> > 1. vfs doesn't appear to support the nautilus login dialog for non-anon
> > ftp. (unlike webdav)
> 
> It should not be too hard to copy parts of the auth callback code from
> the http method. If you do that, the nautilus login dialog will work
> for free. (This should not be done until after 2.0.0, of course).

See bug 75216

>  
> > 2. even if i manually enter the url loading of ftp sites seems to take
> > ages and well just kind of dies on me (i suspect vfs is also probably at
> > fault here)

Maciej/Michael:

Should i file a nautilus or vfs bug for this????


> 
> Part of the problem here is making too many control connections
> instead of trying to recycle one (or maybe some small number) per
> server.
> 
> Another problem is that the attributes that nautilus will result in a
> separate round trip for every file, in addition to the basic
> list. Someone could look into why this happens and see if there is a
> way to avoid it.
 


dave