Bug#602939: konqueror: webdav put request not issued

[Mauro Darida <mauro.darida@istruzione.it>]

Package: konqueror
Version: 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6+lenny1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

When trying to upload a file to a WebDAV share with Konqueror, this does not have any effect and sometimes issues an error, that the WebDAV root does not exist.

This behavior results from a PROPFIND request that is issued before the actual PUT of the file, to check if the desired resource already exists on the server. The PROPFIND request returns status code 404, as expected, since the desired resource does not exist (yet). However, the 404 response seems to be caught in another place of the HTTP handling already, so that the desired PUT does not occur.
Please see http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166081 for a description of the bug (which I have copied from that) and the proposed patch.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.6
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_IE@euro, LC_CTYPE=en_IE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages konqueror depends on:
ii  kcontrol         4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6+lenny1 control center for KDE
ii  kdebase-kio-plug 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6+lenny1 core I/O slaves for KDE
ii  kdelibs4c2a      4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny4 core libraries and binaries for al
ii  kdesktop         4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6+lenny1 miscellaneous binaries and files f
ii  kfind            4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6+lenny1 file-find utility for KDE
ii  libc6            2.7-18lenny6            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1          1:4.3.2-1.1             GCC support library
ii  libkonq4         4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6+lenny1 core libraries for Konqueror
ii  libqt3-mt        3:3.3.8b-5+b1           Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libstdc++6       4.3.2-1.1               The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6         2:1.1.5-2               X11 client-side library

konqueror recommends no packages.

Versions of packages konqueror suggests:
ii  gij 4.1.1-20                             The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii  khe 4:4.0.0.really.3.5.9.dfsg.1-6+lenny1 help center for KDE
ii  kon 4:3.5.9-2                            plugins for Konqueror, the KDE fil
ii  ksv 4:3.5.9-3+lenny3                     SVG viewer for KDE
pn  lib <none>                               (no description available)
pn  lib <none>                               (no description available)

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