| eZ Components: Webdav, client support |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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| :Author: Kore Nordmann, Tobias Schlitt |
| :Revision: $Rev$ |
| :Date: $Date$ |
| :Status: Draft |
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| .. contents:: |
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| ================= |
| Supported clients |
| ================= |
| |
| The Webdav component is constantly tested against different WebDAV clients. |
| The following clients are included in the tests: |
| |
| - Nautilus (GNOME) |
| - Konqueror (KDE) |
| - Cadaver (Unix/Linux shell) |
| - MS InternetExplorer 6 (Windows) |
| - MS InternetExplorer 7 (Windows) |
| - Litmus (Unix test suite for WebDAV servers) |
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| ============= |
| Client issues |
| ============= |
| |
| Some clients do not behave compliant to RFC 2518. While the WebDAV component |
| is designed to work around such issues, some client problems cannot be fixed. |
| This sections lists known bugs in WebDAV clients, which prevent some actions |
| to work correctly with the Webdav component. |
| |
| -------- |
| Nautilus |
| -------- |
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| Downloading of folders |
| ====================== |
| |
| Nautilus does not support downloading of folders recursively. While it handles |
| recursive upload fine, it attempts to download a collection using a simple GET |
| request and fails, since it retrieves an empty file. This issue occurs in every |
| version at least until Nautilus 2.28.1 (gvfs/1.4.1). |
| |
| Copying of folders |
| ================== |
| |
| It is not possible to copy folders on a WebDAV server using Nautilus due to the |
| previously named issue. Instead of using the WebDAV COPY statement, Nautilus |
| tries to download the collection using GET and PUT it up again. |
| |
| A `bug for this issue`__ exists in the Gnome bug tracker. |
| |
| __ http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551339 |
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| --------- |
| Konqueror |
| --------- |
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| Version 3.5.9 (possibly earlier) did not perform uploads of new file. The |
| client first checks if the file to upload already exists on the server, which |
| results in a (usually expected) 404 error. Konquerors error handling steps in |
| here and avoids the upload. |
| |
| Version 3.5.10 (possibly earlier and later) works fine with the Webdav |
| component, due to a workaround added in version 1.1. |
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| https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166081 |
