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Offer anonymous connection to read-only WebDav server

Open jeremypw opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

What Happened

Set up a WebDav server with unauthenticated read-only access. Attempted to connect to this with the ConnectServer dialog. Could not connect until a user name and password was entered - the user had to be registered locally. The server could be connected to by entering the address dav://<server-name>/webdav into Files pathbar.

Expected Behavior

An option to attempt anonymous connection should be offered as it is with FTP. Rather than adding a further option to the combobox, radio buttons for "anonymous" and "authenticated" could be offered.

Platform Information

Elementary Odin daily

jeremypw avatar Jul 30 '21 14:07 jeremypw

Same here for ssh: #1666 (kindoff)

queeup avatar Aug 17 '21 15:08 queeup

It is possible to connect to a suitable WebDAV server by entering a random user name and no password so this issue is about having an option in the dropdown that does that automatically which is easy enough.

jeremypw avatar Jun 09 '25 08:06 jeremypw