Hello,

the slide WebDAV servlet does not handle the XML
body of  a request properly, if the client does not send 
a encoding. Neither cadaver nor DAVExplorer or MS Word 
send an explicit charset.

This means, that the method req.getCharacterEncoding() 
im AbstractWebdavServlet returns null and 
AbstractWebdavServlet assumes the value of the system property
file.encoding - in my case iso-8859-1. This is not, what the
clients wanted. 

The request body of all three clients contains
<?xml version="1.0" ?>, which implies UTF-8.
And they send UTF-8.

According to RFC 2376,section 6.4 slide should 
assume US-ASCII, not ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8.

However assuming UTF-8 may be a better choice, since slide 
MUST interoperate with those clients. Since UTF-8 is a 
superset of US-ASCII, slide would be still very close to the specification.

If you agree, Ingo would change line 446 in 
AbstractWebdavMethod.java (rev 1.6) to 

  if (result == null) result = "UTF-8";


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Martin Holz     <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Softwareentwicklung / Vernetztes Studium - Chemie
FIZ CHEMIE Berlin
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D-10587 Berlin     



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