Re: PROPFIND requests from gnome-vfs?

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<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.)

- Jeff

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