Open Drive Remote vs WebDAV Remote?

[yalrighty (Aaron)]

I have about 6TB on Opendrive.com and have the remote set up as an opendrive remote with a crypt remote to encrypt the files.

My question is - is the opendrive remote in rclone simply webdav? Is there any benefit to just setting it up as a normal webdav remote or is the opendrive remote option somehow different than standard webdav?

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

welcome to the forum,

@yalrighty

is the opendrive remote in rclone simply webdav?

no, rclone uses opendrive api, not webdav.
see that for yourself, using -vv --dump=headers

@yalrighty

opendrive remote option somehow different than standard webdav?

yes, opendrive remote supports modtime and checksums verification for file transfers.
webdav for opendrive, lacks both features and is considered beta.

[yalrighty (Aaron)]

So perhaps it would be smart to keep using the opendrive remote for uploading since it verifies the transfers so I will leave that part.

Would download speed potentially be faster just using webdav in that case? I will test but if it has less overhead I might do it that way since it's just for streaming some video files

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

@yalrighty

I will test but if it has less overhead I might do it that way since it's just for streaming some video files

good idea, run the test, then can decide.

[Aerya]

Hi,

I can confirm best deal is to use the remote to upload and the webdav to mount/stream.

[yalrighty (Aaron)]

I created a new user within the opendrive account with its own credentials and mount that as webdav for the reading/downloading part. The uploading part is using the opendrive api remote with crypt but for some reason it's as slow as a snail like under half a megabit per second.