Re: PROPFIND requests from gnome-vfs?

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

Le lun 21/04/2003 à 08:19, Jeff Waugh a écrit :
> <quote who="Navindra Umanee">
> 
> > > > We seem to be getting a lot of PROPFIND requests from gnome-vfs users
> > > > on dot.kde.org.  For what reason would gnome-vfs send us a PROPFIND
> > > > request?  Is this a very easy/common thing to do in GNOME?  How do I
> > > > go about reproducing it?
> > > 
> > > gnome-vfs does a PROPFIND first to see if WebDAV stuff is available at
> > > the URL.
> > 
> > For what reason does gnome-vfs need this information?  If gnome-vfs finds
> > that WebDAV stuff is available, how does its behaviour differ?  Mozilla/IE
> > do not seem to do this.
> 
> Mozilla/IE don't provide WebDAV browsing functionality, AFAIK. If you go to
> a WebDAV resource in Nautilus, it will give you a directory listing, not an
> HTML page. (Wish I could point you towards tigert's old mac.com WebDAV thing
> but it is all subscription-based now.)

Maybe we should have a mean to allow http-only in gnome-vfs (add a
specific webdav:// method ?)

	Xav

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