Hi
I use lftp a lot and its an awesome tool, thanks for developing it.
Recently I setup a WebDAV server and I was testing the authentication
and if the Limit directives work using lftp as client. What I observed
was that lftp sends a PROPFIND command no matter what hftp:use-propfind
is set to. According to the man page:
hftp:use-propfind (boolean)
if set to off, lftp will not try to use `PROPFIND' to
get directory contents with hftp protocol and use `GET'
instead. Default is off.
So my understanding is that it is supposed to not be used by default -
which is not true - it first tries PROPFIND and right after that GET. I
tried setting hftp:use-propfind on and off in lftp.conf and within a
lftp session but it didn't change the behaviour.
This is not a major bug or anything, I simply allowed the command
PROPFIND in my servers config now as a workaround (to keep my errorlog
from filling up with false access forbidden messages). Some people don't
want to allow PROPFIND though because this makes hidden files (e.g.
.htaccess) visible in the directory listings and there are also other
concerns iirc.
I run lftp version 3.2.1 on gentoo linux without any modifcations (no
patches or custom lftp.conf). I hope my observations are correct.
regards
Mike
