Bug#593833: konqueror: Redirect (301) response from WebDAV server is treated as an error when renaming folders

[Andreas Teuchert <ant+bdo@gnpx.net>]

Package: konqueror
Version: 4:4.4.5-1
Severity: normal

Hello,

when trying to rename folders on WebDAV resources, Konqueror omits the trailing
slash in the MOVE request to the server. If the server replies with 301,
Konqueror treats this as an error and displays the following error message:

  An unexpected error (301) occured while attempting to retrieve the contents
  of the specified file or folder.

In the server's log file the following line appears:

  192.0.2.1 - ant [20/Aug/2010:12:24:09 +0200] "MOVE /foo/bar HTTP/1.1" 301 382
  "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.4; Linux) KHTML/4.4.5 (like Gecko)"

RFC 4918, section 5.2 'Collection Resources', states:

  In general, clients SHOULD use the trailing slash form of collection names.
  If clients do not use the trailing slash form the client needs to be prepared
  to see a redirect response.

If using Apache, this issue can be workarounded server-side by including the
following line in /etc/apache2/mods-available/setenvif.conf (or any other
appropriate location):

  BrowserMatch "Konqueror" redirect-carefully

Regards

Andreas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages konqueror depends on:
ii  install-info              4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in 
ii  kdebase-bin               4:4.4.5-1      core binaries for the KDE base app
ii  kdebase-data              4:4.4.5-1      shared data files for the KDE base
ii  kdebase-runtime           4:4.4.5-1      runtime components from the offici
ii  libc6                     2.11.2-2       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libkde3support4           4:4.4.5-1      the KDE 3 Support Library for the 
ii  libkdecore5               4:4.4.5-1      the KDE Platform Core Library
ii  libkdesu5                 4:4.4.5-1      the Console-mode Authentication Li
ii  libkdeui5                 4:4.4.5-1      the KDE Platform User Interface Li
ii  libkhtml5                 4:4.4.5-1      the KHTML Web Content Rendering En
ii  libkio5                   4:4.4.5-1      the Network-enabled File Managemen
ii  libkonq5                  4:4.4.5-1      core libraries for Konqueror
ii  libkonqsidebarplugin4a    4:4.4.5-1      konqueror sidebar plugin library
ii  libkparts4                4:4.4.5-1      the Framework for the KDE Platform
ii  libkutils4                4:4.4.5-1      various utility classes for the KD
ii  libqt4-dbus               4:4.6.3-1      Qt 4 D-Bus module
ii  libqt4-qt3support         4:4.6.3-1      Qt 3 compatibility library for Qt 
ii  libqt4-xml                4:4.6.3-1      Qt 4 XML module
ii  libqtcore4                4:4.6.3-1      Qt 4 core module
ii  libqtgui4                 4:4.6.3-1      Qt 4 GUI module
ii  libstdc++6                4.4.4-8        The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.3.3-3      X11 client-side library

Versions of packages konqueror recommends:
ii  dolphin                       4:4.4.5-1  file manager
ii  konqueror-nsplugins           4:4.4.5-1  Netscape plugin support for Konque

Versions of packages konqueror suggests:
ii  konq-plugins                  4:4.4.0-2  plugins for Konqueror, the KDE fil

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