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Bug 756023 - Webdav - have to use dav[s]:// URL and not http[s] - documentation is wrong
Webdav - have to use dav[s]:// URL and not http[s] - documentation is wrong
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.16.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: 3.22
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-10-03 22:40 UTC by Alan Jenkins
Modified: 2016-09-23 08:09 UTC
See Also:
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Description Alan Jenkins 2015-10-03 22:40:33 UTC
Doc: "A typical WebDAV URL looks like this: http://example.hostname.com/path"

Reality: nautilus requires you to mangle it as "dav://example.hostname.com/path".  I had to Google it.

It would be great if we could use the http URL instead.  If the vfs backend finds standards confusing, just "fix" the URL for the user in the frontend.  It doesn't matter if the URL change is user-visible - no worse than having a conflicting fake URL scheme[1] in the first place.

Owncloud provided a https url for me to copy & paste.  Because that's what Webdav uses: standard http[s] uris.  I can has fix pls?

Alternatively, we could add this cruft into the docs, so they accurately explain the sad state of reality :).

Thanks
Alan


[1] "dav:" is reserved for a conflicting use inside webdav, as an XML namespace.  "davs:" is unregistered.

http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/uri-schemes.xhtml
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4918#section-21.1
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2518#section-13
Comment 1 Carlos Soriano 2015-10-04 13:02:10 UTC
Indeed, IMHO it's a not good enough experience. Let's make it blocker for 3.20 to find a solution.
Comment 2 lof 2015-10-12 17:41:51 UTC
I too found this confusing. And find it highly inconvenient that the user is expected to rewrite the URL provided by their DAV provider (owncloud, mailbox.org, posteo.de, whatever).
Comment 3 Carlos Soriano 2016-02-23 17:26:22 UTC
to 3.22 with the new design Allan is doing.
Comment 4 Carlos Soriano 2016-09-23 08:09:21 UTC
This was fixed in gtk+