[Bug 340359] [NEW] Not a WebDAV enabled share

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(system: Ubuntu 8.10, i386, GNOME Desktop)

Hallo,

recently I started to play around with WebDAV shares. I'm running an
apache webserver with DAV modules enabled on a remote mashine. Access
seems to work an has been tested with different client.

First Problem: Using Gnome's "connect to server" tool it is not possible
to connect to a DAVS (webdav over SSL) server. At least, I was not able
to do so.

Second Problem: Unsing Nautilus I managed to connect my server using the
URI "davs://server/path". The remote share is mounted and nautilus
showes the content. Additionally a new icon appears on desktop
representing the mountpoint. When I try to use that icon I always get
the error "Not a WebDAV enabled share". I have to unmount this share
(icon disappeares) and mount it again from scratch (or use a bookmark).
An "ls ~.gvfs" on command-line gives another error message, namely
"Input/output error ... WebDAV on Servername".

What peace of software does all the magic (package)? So far I don't
know.

All that makes handling of davs shares very unpleasant. Please let me
know if I can supply any further information, messages or application
output.

** Affects: gvfs (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New

[Austin Lund]

** Changed in: gvfs (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: None => gvfs

[Sebastien Bacher]

thank you for your bug report, could you report one issue by bug only
though?

the connect to server bug is fixed in jaunty and has candidate updates
for hardy and intrepid

could you give details on your webdav server. run /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd -r
on a command line and try to mount and list it using gvfs-mount and
gvfs-ls and copy the log to the bug?

** Changed in: gvfs (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Low
Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
Status: New => Incomplete

[arturj]

Thank you for further instructions.

I'm running webdav on an ubuntu 8.10 server. Here are the package
versions:

apache2-mpm-prefork (2.2.9-7ubuntu3)
apache2 (2.2.9-7ubuntu3)

And my http config file (default-ssl) contains:
Alias /webdav /home/www/webdav
<Directory /home/www/webdav>
Dav on
ForceType text/plain
Options Indexes

# authentication
AuthType Basic
AuthName "WebDAV Login"
AuthPAM_Enabled On
AuthPAM_FallThrough Off
AuthBasicAuthoritative Off
Require valid-user
SSLRequireSSL
</Directory>


Here is the log output of...

1. "gvfs-mount davs://x.x.x.x/webdav"

Added new job source 0x8299c38 (GVfsBackendDav)
Queued new job 0x829d818 (GVfsJobMount)
+ mount
+ soup_authenticate_interactive (first auth)
send_reply, failed: 0
backend_dbus_handler org.gtk.vfs.Mount:QueryInfo
Queued new job 0x82c3aa0 (GVfsJobQueryInfo)
- mount
Query info /
register_mount_callback, mount_reply: 0x82c8a90, error: (nil)
send_reply(0x82c3aa0), failed=0 ()

2. "gvfs-ls"
nothing! This command seems to require a location parameter which I don't know/have. Instead I tried to click on the webdav-icon on desktop which appeared as a result of the gvfs-mount command. Here is its log output:

Added new job source 0x8d56c38 (GVfsBackendDav)
Queued new job 0x8d5a818 (GVfsJobMount)
+ mount
send_reply, failed: 1

3. And for sake of completeness the unmount result (via mouse context
menu on desktop icon):

backend_dbus_handler org.gtk.vfs.Mount:Unmount
g_vfs_job_unmount_new request: 0x82949b0
Queued new job 0x8299070 (GVfsJobUnmount)

[Sebastien Bacher]

reopening for now, somebody having the issue should probably send that
to bugzilla.gnome.org

** Changed in: gvfs (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => New