Mac OS X Finder and WebDAV

Why is it in 2006 that the Mac OS X Finder can't handle network errors without completely freaking out? I had a WebDAV share mounted and made the mistake of restarting the Apache instance that it was connecting to. Woah, big mistake, the Finder is now completely hosed, it won't even accept a force quit or kill -9 to restart.

I hadn't tried using WebDAV in a long time since it used to do this back in the 10.0 days, but I figured surely by now since we're on 10.4 they must have fixed the problem. Nope, now it's even worse. This is absolutely pathetic. WebDAV is friggin HTTP, you know that stateless protocol that the entire web runs on. Why the hell is it holding a non-recoverable persistent connection to an HTTP server? Blah, blah, performance, blah, blah, but really how hard is it to just try reestablishing the connection when the server drops? It's obviously locked up in the kernel somewhere since the process won't die, did I mention this is pathetic?

Whoah, the Finder just restarted, looks like the timeout is something like 10 minutes. 10 MINUTES for a protocol that crosses the internet, are they out of their minds?

Posted by Kimbro Staken