Re: GVFS WebDAV dropping initial path element in OPTIONS request

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Sat, 2013-07-27 at 18:38 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> After upgrading openSUSE 12.3 to GNOME 3.8 opening a file from Nautilus
> [GVFS] from a WebDAV volume occasionally drops the initial part of the
> path;  so "/dav/Projects..." becomes "/Projects..." which, of course,
> fails.
>
> The response from the server is valid, and the files can be browsed in
> Nautilus; they can also be dragged back and forth between local and
> remote.  Opening the *THE FIRST* file in gedit works.  After than
> gedit / GVFS makes a bad OPTIONS call, that responds with a 404, and
> stops the ability to open files. 
>
> Killing the gvfs dav worker allows me to open ONE MORE FILE.
>
> I've attached the client server conversations.  The first two are
> successful PROPFIND requests and the last is the incorrect 404 OPTIONS
> request.  In both cases the server was attached to as
> http://127.0.0.1:8080/dav.  The "dav" part gets dropped in all but the
> first OPTIONS request.

When running GVFS in debug mode [to see the console messages]:

send_reply(0x7898d0), failed=0 ()
Added new job source 0x1595230 (GVfsBackendDav)
Queued new job 0x15a4ae0 (GVfsJobMount)
+ mount
> OPTIONS /Projects/site/Documents/template.mako HTTP/1.1
> Soup-Debug-Timestamp: 1374965202
> Soup-Debug: SoupSessionSync 1 (0x15b00a0), SoupMessage 1
(0x7f3d58006830), SoupSocket 1 (0x7f3d5800b000)
> Host: 127.0.0.1:8080
> Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
> User-Agent: gvfs/1.16.2
> Accept-Language: en-us, en;q=0.9
> Connection: Keep-Alive
  
< HTTP/1.1 404 No such path as /Projects/site/Documents/template.mako
< Soup-Debug-Timestamp: 1374965202
< Soup-Debug: SoupMessage 1 (0x7f3d58006830)
< Server: BaseHTTP/0.3 Python/2.7.3
< Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 22:46:42 GMT
< Content-Length: 12
< Content-Type: text/plain
< WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="OpenGroupware COILS"
< Connection: close
< 
< No such path
  
send_reply, failed: 1

** (gvfsd:4329): WARNING **: dbus_mount_reply: Error from
org.gtk.vfs.Mountable.mount(): HTTP Error: No such path
as /Projects/site/Documents/template.mako