Re: PROPFIND requests from gnome-vfs?

[Navindra Umanee <navindra cs mcgill ca>]

Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org> wrote:
> <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.

Thanks,
Navin.