Why did Microsoft choose a RESTful API over WebDAV for BLOB storage?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/255477
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Microsoft's new Windows Live Application Based Storage API is a RESTful API.
More info is here.
Why did they choose not to support WebDAV?
Solution
WebDAV is for managing files on a remote server, but perhaps is not generic enough for what Microsoft was trying to accomplish.
There's also a lot of hype around REST lately and they are probably in competition with S3 from Amazon which offers a REST API.
It would have been good of them to provide their RESTful API as well as WebDAV.
OTHER TIPS
Microsoft has ADO.NET data service which provides RESTful API for data. Perhaps they have used the framework for the storage.
Im been using WebDav on some other project like android and see all kind of scenario compare from REST Api.
Using WebDav, when you had multiple files like 5 thousand files or more and getting there value from the webdav server, open the file take time because of streaming or reading each of them, using REST Api in one content for all records in good format of json is faster than webdav.
