transmit
Transmit is a commercial WebDAV (as well as sftp and ftp) client for OSX. It can either browse WebDAV sites in a simple browser, but it's also capable of mounting WebDAV drives using MacFuse.
Transmit 4 had issues with multiple namespace declarations (DAV: appeared twice). This bug was promised to be fixed in a next version of Transmit, but it's also fixed in jsDAV.
Transmit's client is much better than the built-in OS/X one. It makes far less request, as it seems to buffer all modifications for a while. Because of this it's much more responsive uses far less HTTP requests / bandwidth.
Transmit suffers from the same issue as the OS/X client, where it sends all HTTP PUT requests as 'Chunked' transfer encoding. This is not supported by many servers, such as lighttpd and nginx, as well as using apache + fastcgi.
If you plan to support Transmit you are strongly adviced to just use NodeJS standalone.
Transmit uses the following user agent:
WebDAVFS/1.2.7 (01278000) Transmit/4.0 neon/0.29.3
Transmit first does an OPTIONS request on the url, and then a propfind only requesting
the {DAV:}resourcetype property.
Once it's sure it's dealing with a collection, it requests the following properties (depth: 1):
- creationdate
- getcontentlength
- getlastmodified
- resourcetype
When transmit is used to mount the webdav share, the following ueragent is used:
WebDAVFS/1.2.7 (01278000) TransmitFSHelper/1.0 neon/0.29.3
It requests for the same properties as before, as well as the following:
- quota-available-bytes
- quota-used-bytes
- quota
- quota-used
The last 2 are non-standard.
Transmit (or OSX) also seems to create a .Trashes folder as soon as the connection is made.
Based on the original document at http://code.google.com/p/sabredav/wiki/Transmit