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by williamjackson 231 days ago
I was surprised, then not really surprised, when I found out this week that Tailscale's native file sharing feature, Taildrive, is implemented as a WebDAV server in the network.

https://tailscale.com/kb/1369/taildrive
1 comments
nine_k 231 days ago
What else would you expect, just out of curiosity? SMB? NFS? SSHFS?
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worik 231 days ago
A proprietary binary patented protocol...
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PunchyHamster 231 days ago
and do what, implement virtual filesystem driver for every OS ?
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HumanOstrich 231 days ago
Only if adding that complexity locks in more subscribers for premium features and support.
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