Bug#311286: davfs2: WebDAV URL's with spaces do not work

[Werner Baumann]

Hello David,

it is a shell problem. When typing the mount command you must escape 
spaces in arguments and options with '\' to prevent the shell from 
(mis)interpreting them. But you must not do any encoding with respect to 
http, as this will be done by davfs2.


So you should write your url like this:
http://vista.sun.ac.za:80/webct/webdav/146.232.128.129-1099131904310-2015121000.4753974000/My\ 
Files/mathml


The shell will now deliver the correct url to mount.davfs:
http://vista.sun.ac.za:80/webct/webdav/146.232.128.129-1099131904310-2015121000.4753974000/My 
Files/mathml


davfs2 will do the correct http-encoding. On the wire your url will be:
http://vista.sun.ac.za:80/webct/webdav/146.232.128.129-1099131904310-2015121000.4753974000/My%20Files/mathml

This will be understood by the WebDAV-server.

Greetings
Werner


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Bug#311286: davfs2: WebDAV URL's with spaces do not work

[David Richfield]

Package: davfs2
Version: 0.2.3-2
Severity: important


mount.davfs seems to fail on URL's that contain spaces, but the process
doesn't die.  The server inserts + signs instead of spaces, but
replacing them with %20's or spaces (with the URL in quotes) doesn't
help.  A sample output follows:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/david/davidr/webdav# mount.davfs 
http://vista.sun.ac.za:80/webct/webdav/146.232.128.129-1099131904310-2015121000.4753974000/My+Files/mathml
 /home/david/davidr/webdav/TestProj/ -o username=,password=
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/david/davidr/webdav# Needs password
/dev/davfs0 to /home/david/davidr/webdav/TestProj/ mount error : Invalid
argument

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/david/davidr/webdav# ps ax | grep -i davfs
  5216 ?Ss 0:00 mount.davfs 
http://vista.sun.ac.za:80/webct/webdav/146.232.128.129-1099131904310-2015121000.4753974000/My+Files/mathml
  /home/david/davidr/webdav/TestProj/ -o *
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/david/davidr/webdav# lsmod | grep coda
coda   35300  2 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-dave
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages davfs2 depends on:
ii  libc6  2.3.2.ds1-22  GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libneon24  0.24.7.dfsg-1 An HTTP and WebDAV client library
ii  libssl0.9.70.9.7e-3  SSL shared libraries
ii  libxml22.6.16-7  GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime

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