Re: nautilus fails to open webdav folders (https)

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 11:45 -0500, H.S. wrote:
> I have been trying to connect to my university webdav folders via
> nautilus, but it just fails to connect. I have tried this on fully
> updated Etch(nautilus 2.14.3-3) and also on Ubuntu Dapper(nautilus
> 2.14.3-0ubuntu1) and Edgy.
> 
> I do File --> ConnectToServer in nautilus, select "Secure WebDAV"
> protocal (also tried with just plain WebDAV) and give the full folder
> link in server field (by taking off the "https://"; from its beginning).
> When I double click on the mount point created by nautilus in its
> windows, it asks for the username and password, tried to connect and
> then fails with the message that the link was not found (and tells me to
> please check spelling and try again). That same links works perfectly in
> Konqueror in KDE. The problem appears to be only in nautilus. I have
> visited this a few times for the last couple of years with similar results.
> 
> I also tried giving the just the server URL in the server field and the
> folder path in the folder field. Same results.
> 
> Anybody got nautilus working with https (davs)? If yes, I would love to
> know what you do differently. Or is it just the server at my university
> that has something weird about it that Konqueror takes care of but
> Nautilus doesn't?
> 
> I just subscribed to this list since I got no response from Ubuntu and
> Debian forums. Is there a way to make Nautilus spew out logs to see what
> it is doing or what could be going wrong?

There is no nautilus specific logs, but you could rebuild gnome-vfs with
"#define DEBUG_HTTP_ENABLE" added to the top of
modules/http-neon-method.c, which might give you some clues.

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