Adding fake PROPPATCH to make windows happy

[speq]

Hi All,

I added a patch to response PROPPATCH for windows. Let dav-ext work with windows explorer. Windows need LOCK and PROPPATCH to put a file.

proppatch.patch.gz

[divinity76]

IMO faking support is better than not supporting Windows at all,

but why do we need to fake it? is adding real support much more difficult or something? (i'm not complaining, i just honestly don't know the answer, i don't even know what PROPPATCH is supposed to do)

[divinity76]

this is related to issue #18 (an issue that has been, in my opinion, erroneously closed)

[speq]

Hi @divinity76, I'm not expert of WebDAV and real support takes times. It just worked well as a standalone web drive server for my personal use.

[divinity76]

i just skimmed through https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4918#section-9.2 , and concluded that adding proper PROPPATCH support is certainly non-trivial.

thanks for sharing!

[rozhuk-im]

For PROPPATCH there is a more simple way:

if ($request_method = PROPPATCH) { # Unsupported, allways return OK.
	add_header	Content-Type 'text/xml';
	return		207 '<?xml version="1.0"?><a:multistatus xmlns:a="DAV:"><a:response><a:propstat><a:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</a:status></a:propstat></a:response></a:multistatus>';
}

But for windows WebDAV clients you need more hacks: http://netlab.dhis.org/wiki/ru:software:nginx:webdav (see end of page - all in one hacks)

[Alfagun74]

thanks man @rozhuk-im

[aguaviva]

Did anyone get this working with the above suggestions?

[rozhuk-im]

https://github.com/dgraziotin/docker-nginx-webdav-nononsense/issues/8

[aguaviva]

Thank you!!!