Hello,
although my explanation was not only plausible but fundamentally
correct, it missed one (unimportant) detail: the real bug in davfs!
davfs2 does not escape the path in its first request (OPTIONS) (in all
following requests it does). So the connection fails.
I append a patch for this. Please cd into your davfs2-directory and
apply it with
patch -p1 < davfs2-0.2.3-patch-uri-escape
(assuming you copied the patch-file into the davfs2-directory.
Now urls witch spaces should work if you prevent the shell from
(mis)interpreting them. Example:
"http://foo.bar/path witch spaces"
or
http://foo.bar/path\ witch\ spaces
I have also applied this patch to the MAIN branch of the davfs2 cvs
repository.
Greetings
Werner
P.S.:
Don't know why my first email does not appear in the bug report the
normal way. I am not very experienced with mailing lists. Please tell me
if there is something wrong (Re: ? )
--- davfs2-0.2.3-debian/src/webdav.c 2005-06-04 14:29:44.000000000 +0200
+++ davfs2-0.2.3-debian.new/src/webdav.c 2005-07-08 20:33:42.000000000
+0200
@@ -277,7 +277,9 @@
/* Initialize the session */
dav_init_session();
- ret = ne_options(session, server.path, &caps);
+ char *tmp_path = ne_path_escape(server.path);
+ ret = ne_options(session, tmp_path, &caps);
+ NE_FREE(tmp_path);
switch (ret) {
case NE_OK:
