Re: WebDAV & Apache: redirect-carefully

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 8 Dec 2002, Jack Johnson wrote:

> It took me a few days to fix this, and even post-fix I noticed that I
> couldn't find the solution anywhere on the Internet, so I thought I'd
> share it here for posterity.
> 
> I had immense trouble with Nautilus (gnome-vfs 2.0.2) and Apache's
> mod_dav (2.0.40).  Nautilus kept displaying the DAV share as html rather
> than as a Web folder.  Other clients worked (cadaver, MS' Web Folders,
> etc.) and other servers worked (IIS, www.zope.org which uses their own
> DAV extension on Apache), but my own always seemed to fail.
> 
> It turns out my httpd.conf was missing an entry for gnome-vfs:
> 
> 	BrowserMatch "gnome-vfs/*" redirect-carefully
> 
> Now everything works beautifully.  But, whose documentation would be the
> best place for this kind of information?  Or, is there a potential
> change to gnome-vfs that could eliminate this necessity?

Yes. Thats a bug:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92908
We should handle the redirect better.
 
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