I'm trying to get commons-vfs talking to Archiva and I'm having trouble getting them talking and I was hoping someone here could help me out.
I'm just trying a simple test to create a directory on the webdav server. My build.xml looks like this: <project name="test" xmlns:vfs="antlib:org.apache.commons.vfs.tasks"> <target name="main"> <vfs:mkdir dir="webdav:// user:passw...@hostname.com/archiva/repository/snapshots/testOrg/testArtifact" /> </target> </project> When I try to run this I get the following exception: org.apache.commons.vfs. FileSystemException: Could not determine the type of file "webdav://user:*...@hostname.com/archiva/repository/snapshots/testOrg". at org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.AbstractFileObject.getType(AbstractFileObject.java:476) at org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.AbstractFileObject.createFolder(AbstractFileObject.java:931) at org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.AbstractFileObject.createFolder(AbstractFileObject.java:952) at org.apache.commons.vfs.tasks.MkdirTask.execute(MkdirTask.java:62) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:288) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:357) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:385) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1337) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1306) at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1189) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:758) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:217) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:257) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:104) Caused by: org.apache.commons.vfs.FileSystemException: Unknown message with code "Found". at org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.webdav.ExceptionConverter.generate(ExceptionConverter.java:88) at org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.webdav.ExceptionConverter.generate(ExceptionConverter.java:41) at org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.webdav.WebdavFileObject.execute(WebdavFileObject.java:413) at org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.webdav.WebdavFileObject.getProperties(WebdavFileObject.java:488) at org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.webdav.WebdavFileObject.getProperties(WebdavFileObject.java:463) at org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.webdav.WebdavFileObject.getProperty(WebdavFileObject.java:456) at org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.webdav.WebdavFileObject.getProperty(WebdavFileObject.java:448) at org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.webdav.WebdavFileObject.isDirectory(WebdavFileObject.java:428) at org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.webdav.WebdavFileObject.doGetType(WebdavFileObject.java:113) at org.apache.commons.vfs.provider.AbstractFileObject.getType(AbstractFileObject.java:467) ... 20 more Total time: 1 second I dug through the source and the exact HTTP code was a 302 Found. When I look at the Archiva access logs I see the following: 1.1.1.1 - - [12/Mar/2010:15:19:46 +0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 404 1268 "-" "Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.1" 1.1.1.1 - - [12/Mar/2010:15:19:46 +0000] "PROPFIND /archiva/repository/snapshots/ testOrg/testArtifact HTTP/1.1" 404 0 "-" "Jakarta-Commons-VFS" 1.1.1.1 - - [12/Mar/2010:15:19:46 +0000] "PROPFIND /archiva/repository/snapshots/testOrg HTTP/1.1" 404 0 "-" "Jakarta-Commons-VFS" 1.1.1.1 - - [12/Mar/2010:15:19:46 +0000] "PROPFIND /archiva/repository/snapshots HTTP/1.1" 302 0 "-" "Jakarta-Commons-VFS"