GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 756023
Webdav - have to use dav[s]:// URL and not http[s] - documentation is wrong
Last modified: 2016-09-23 08:09:21 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
Indeed, IMHO it's a not good enough experience. Let's make it blocker for 3.20 to find a solution.
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).
to 3.22 with the new design Allan is doing.
This was fixed in gtk+