Bug 106290 - WebDAV is broken in Fedora 2 (and it seems gnome 2.4 in general)
Summary: WebDAV is broken in Fedora 2 (and it seems gnome 2.4 in general)
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-vfs2
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Alexander Larsson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-10-05 00:20 UTC by Alan Cox
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-03-11 23:09:58 UTC
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Description Alan Cox 2003-10-05 00:20:12 UTC
Description of problem:

The http: handlers take the URL quoted, remove the trailing "/" (wrong for http and
iffy for dav) and issue a PROPFIND. Apache DAV replies with a 301 content
redirection message which the DAV detection then treats as a "no DAV" error. It
then retrieves the 
URL via GET and sees a redirect message. It then fetches the redirected URL  **BUT**
displays the redirection URL text not the correct URL text.

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up a DAV subdirectory on apache
2. Try and use nautilus with it
3.  Now try using the KDE file manager with it to prove its a client side bug
    
Actual results:
For https:// nautilus doesn't support it at all
For http:// the behaviour described is seen
With KDE or Windows systems accessing the same DAV folder it just works. Ditto
with davfs2.

Expected results:
Working DAV

Additional info:
This problem doesn't show up with the Microsoft DAV server side as it replies to
the PROPFIND without issuing a redirect.

As a footnote it seems the whole http:// support is rather buggy - I've also had
nautilus crashes while trying to debug this. I may have a look at writing a
proper dav: VFS module using neon, since neon already provides 99% of the needed
code including SSL.

Regardless of that the redirect bug needs fixing - it shouldnt treat redirect as
a propfind test failure and it shouldnt show the wrong page. It probably
shouldnt trim the trailing "/" either.

Comment 1 Alexander Larsson 2003-10-07 14:49:07 UTC
I think we have the webdav redirect bug in Gnome bugzilla somewhere.



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